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Clampetia formerly stood, the town of Temsa*, called Teraese 

 by the Greeks, and Terina founded by the people of Crotona^ 

 with the extensive Gulf of Terina ; more inland, the town of 

 Consentia^. Situate upon a peninsula* is the river Ache- 

 ron*, from which the people of Acherontia derive the name 

 of their town; then Hippo, now called Vibo Valentia, 

 the Port of Hercules', the river Metaurus', the town of 

 Tauroentum^, the Port of Orestes, and Medma'. Next, the 

 town of SeyllaDum**', the river Crataeis", the mother of Scylla 

 it is said ; then the Pillar of Rhe^um, the Straits of Sicily, 

 and the two promontories wliich face each other, CsBnys'* on 

 the Italian, and Pelorus" on the Sicilian side, the distance be- 

 tween them being twelve stadia. At a distance thence of 

 twelve miles and a half, we come to Rhegium'*, after which 

 begins Sila**, a forest of the Apennines, and then the pro- 

 of the modern Amantia. From other authors we find that it was still 

 existing at this time. If such is the fact, the meaning will be " the place 

 where tlie former municipal town of Clampetia stood," it being supposed 

 to have lost in its latter years its munieipal privileges. 



* One of the ancient Ausouiau towns, and afterwards colonized by the 

 ./Etolians. Like its namesake in Cyprus it was fiunous for its copper. 

 Its site is now occupied by Torre di Lupi. 



' A Greek city, almost totally destroyed by Hannibal j Santa Eufemia 

 occupies its ^ite. 

 ' One of the cities of the Bruttii ; now Cosenza. 



* The part which now oonstitutes the Farther Calabria. 



* Supposed to be the same as the Arconte, which falls into the 

 Crathis near Consentia. Nothing is known of the town here alluded to, 

 but it must not be confounded with Acherontia, the modem Acerenza, in 

 Apulia, which was a dilTerent place. 



^ Supposed to have been the same as the modem port of Tropca. 



7 The modem Marro. 



® Its ruins are supposed to be those seen near FalmL 



* Probably the modem Melia stands on its site. 



^^ A town on the promontory of the same name, now called Scilla or 

 Sciglio, where the monster Scylla was fabled to have dwelt. 



" Homer says (Odyssey, lii. 124), that it had its name fix)m the nymph 

 Cratfieis, the mother of Scylla. It is probably the small stream now called 

 Fiume di Solano or dei Pesci. 



^2 The modem Capo di Cavallo, according to the older commentators ; 

 but more recent geographers think that the Punta del Pezzo was the point 

 so called. ^3 Now called Capo di Faro, from the hghthouse there erected. 



1^ Originally a Greek colony ; a Roman colony was settled there by 

 Augustus. The modem city of Reggio occupies its site, 



^^ It extended south of Consentia to the Sicilian Straits, a distance of 

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