224 plint's natueal histoet. [Book III. 



Nesethus^ and the town of Thurii^, situate between the two 

 rivers Crathis and Sybaris, upon the latter of which there was 

 once a city^ of the same name. In a similar manner Hera- 

 clia**, sometimes called Siris, lies between the river of that 

 name and the Aciris. "We next come to the rivers Aca- 

 landrus and Casuentum*, and the town of Metapontum^, 

 with which the third region of Italy terminates. In the 

 interior of Bruttium, the Aprustani^ are the only people ; 

 but in Lucania we find the Atinates, the Bantini, the Ebu- 

 rini^, the Grrumentini, the Potentini, the Sontini®, the Sirini, 

 the Tergilani, the Ursentini, and the Volcentani/", whom 

 the Numestrani join. Besides these, we learn from Cato" 

 that Thebes in Lucania has disappeared, and Theopompus 

 informs us that there was formerly a city of the Lucani called 

 Pandosia'^, at which Alexander, the king of Epirus, died. 



^ The modem Neto. 



2 Now called Turi, between the rivers Crati and Sibari or Roscile. 



3 A Gh-eek town, famous for the inordinate love of luxury displayed by 

 its inhabitants, whence a voluptuary obtained the name of a " Sybarite." 

 It was destroyed by the people of Crotona, who turned the waters of the 

 Crathis upon the town. Its site is no w occupied by a pestilential swamp. 



"^ A famous Greek city founded on the territory of the former Ionian 

 colony of Siris. The foundations of it mav still be seen, it is supposed, 

 near a spot called Policoro, three miles from the sea. The rivers are 

 now called the Sinno and the Agri. 



* The modem Salandra or SalandreUa, and the Basiento. 



^ So called from its Ijing between the two seas. It was once a cele- 

 brated Greek city, but was in ruins in the time of Pausanias. The 

 place called Torre di Mare now occupies its site. 



7 The site of Aprustum is supposed to be marked by the village of 

 Argus to, near Chiaravalle, about five miles from the Gulf of SquiSace. 

 Atina was situate in the valley of the Tanager, now the VaUe di Diano. The 

 ruins of Atina, which are very extensive, are to be seen near the village 

 of Atena. Livy and Acron speak of Bantia as in Apulia, and not in Lu- 

 cania. An ancient abbey, Santa Maria (ii Vanze, still marks its site. 



® The ruins of Eburi are supposed to be those between the modem 

 EboU and the right bank of tlie Silarus. The remains of Grximentum, 

 a place of some importance, are still to be seen on the river Agri, half a 

 mile from the modern Saponara. Potenza occupies the site of ancient 

 Potentia. 



^ The Sontini were probably situate on the river Sontia, now the Sanza, 

 near PoHcastro. The Sirini probably had their name from the river Siris. 



^" Voleentum was situate near the Silarus, probably on the spot now 

 called Bulcino or Bucino. The site of Numistro appears to be unknown. 



^* In his work " De Originibus." 



Livy, B. viii.^ and Justin mention how that Alexander I. (in the 



