Cliap. 10.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTBIES, ETC. 207 



tve learn from Antias that king L. Tarquinius took Apiolffi\ 

 a town of the Latins, and with its spoils laid the first foun- 

 dations of the Capitol. Prom Siiirentum^ to the river 

 Silarus^, the former territory of Picentia^ extends for a 

 distance of thirty miles. This belonged to the Etruscans, 

 and was remarkable for the temple of the Argive Juno, 

 founded by Jason*. In it was Picentia, a town** of the ter- 

 ritory of ISalemum'. 



CHAP. 10. — THE THIED EEOION OF ITALY. 



At the Silanis begins the third region of Italy, consisting 

 of the territory of Lucania and Bruttium ; here too there 

 have been no few changes of the population. These districts 



* This city took the lead in the war of the Latin cities against Tar- 

 quinius Priscus. Gell and Nibby think that it was situate about eleven 

 miles from Rome, a mile to the .south of the Appian way, where there 

 are some remains that indicate the site of an ancient city, near the stream 

 called the Fosso delle Fratocche. Livy tells us that with the spoils 

 thence derived, Tarquinius celebrated the Lttdi Magni for the first time. 



'^ Opposite Caprece, and situate on the Promontory of Minerva. Sor- 

 rento now stands on its site. 



3 The modem Silaro; it was the boundary between Lucania and 

 Campania, and rises in the Apennines. 



* A town in the south of Campania, at the head of the Gulf of 

 Poestum. In consequence of the aid wliich they gave to Hannibal, the 

 inhabitants were forced to abandon their town and Uve in the adjoining 

 villages. The name of Picentini was given, as here stated, to the inha- 

 bitants of all the territory between the Promontory of Minerva and the 

 river Silarus. They were a portion of the Sabine Picentes, who were 

 transplanted thither after the conquest of Picenimi, B.C. 268. The mo- 

 dem Yicenza stands on its site. 



^ The Argonaut. Probably this was only a vague tradition. 



^ By using the genitive ' Salemi,' he would seem to imply that the 

 Roman colony of Salemimi then gave name to the district of which Pi- 

 centia was the chief town. Ajasson however has translated it merely 

 " Salemum and Picentia." ' Intus ' can hardly mean " inland," as 

 Picentia was near the coast, and so was Salemum. 



7 This was an ancient town of Cainpania, at the innermost comer of 

 the Gi Jf of Pffistum, situate near the coast, on a height at the foot of 

 which lay its harbour. It attained great prosperity, as Salemo, in the 

 middle ages, and was noted for its School of Health established there ; 

 which issued periodically rules for the preservation of health in Latin 

 Leonine verse. 



