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one of the most famous ports of Italy, and, although more 

 distant, affords by far the safest passage across to Greece, 

 the place of disembarkation being Dyrrachium, a city of 

 Illyna ; the distance across is 225 miles. 



Adjoining Brundusium is the territory of the Pediculi* ; 

 nine youths and as many maidens, natives of Illyria, became 

 the parents of sixteeii nations. The towns of the Pediculi 

 are Kudia)^, Egnatia', and Barium^ ; their rivers are the lapyx 

 (so called from the son of Da?dalus, who was king there, and 

 who gave it the name of lapygia), the Pactius*, and the 

 Aufidus, which rises in the Hirpinian mountains and flows 

 past Canusium". 



At this point begins Apulia, sumamed the Daunian, from the 

 Daunii, who take their name from a former chief, the father-in- 

 law of Diomedes. In this territory are the towns of Salapia'^, 

 lamous for Hannibal's amour with a courtezan, Sipontum®, 



* They occupied probably a portion of the modem Terra di BarL 



2 Said by Hardouin to be the modem Carouigna or Carovigni ; but 

 Mannert asserts it to be the same as the modem Euro. 



' Or Gnatia, called by Strabo and Ptolemy a city of Apulia. It was 

 probably the last town of the Peucetians towards the fi^ntiers of Calabria. 

 Horace, in the account of his journey to Brundusium (I. Sat. i. 97-100), 

 makes it his last halting-place, and ridicules a pretended miracle shown 

 by the inhabitants, who asserted that incense placed on a certain altar 

 was consumed without fire being applied. The same story is referred to 

 by Pliny, B. ii. c. Ill, where he incorrectly makes Egnatia a town of the 

 Salentini. Its ruins are visible on the sea-coast, about six miles S.E. of 

 Monopali, and an old town still bears the name of Torre d' Agnazzo. 



* Now Bari, a considerable city. In the time of Horace it was only a 

 fishing town. It probably liad a considerable intercourse with Greece, 

 if we may judge from the remains of art found here. 



5 It is difficult to identify these rivers, from the number of small tor- 

 rents between Brindisi . and the Ofanto or Aufidus. According to 

 Mannert, the Pactius is the present Canale di Terzo. 



^ An important city of Apulia, said to have been foimded by Diomedes. 

 Horace alludes to its deficiency of water. The modem Canosa is built 

 on probably the sit« of the citadel of the ancient city, the niins of which 

 are very extensive. 



^ The ruins of this place are still to be seen at some Httle distance 

 from the coast, near the village of Salpi. The story about Hannibal was 

 very probably of Roman invention, for Justin .and Frontinus speak in 

 praise of his continence and temperance. Appian however gives some 

 further particulars of this alleged amour. 



^ The present Manfredonia has arisen from the decay of this town, in 

 consequence of the unhealtliiness of the locality. Ancient Uria is sup- 



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