230 PLUrr's lfATTJEA.L HISTOET. [Book III. 



Atinates*, the Arpani, the Borcani, the Collatini, the Cori- 

 nenses, the Cannenses^, rendered famous by the defeat of the 

 liomans, theDirini, theForentani^, the Genusini^, the Herdo- 

 nienses, the Hyrini*, the Larinates surnamed Frentani^, the 

 Merinates'' of Gargaims, the Mateolani, the Netini*, the Eu- 

 bustini^, the Silviui^**, the Strapelliiii", the Turmentini, the 

 Vibinates^^, the Yenusini, and the Ulurtini. In the interior 

 of Calabria there are the ^getiiii, the Apamestini^^, the 

 Argentini, the Butuntinenses^^, theDeciani, the Grumbestini, 



1 The people of Atinum, a town of Lucania, situate in the upper valley 

 of the Tanager, now the Valle di Diano. Its site is ascertamed by the 

 ruins near the village of Atena, five miles north of La Sala. Collatia 

 was situate on the Anio, now called the Teverone. 



=* The ruins of the town of Canuffi an; stiU visible at a place called 

 Canne, about eight miles from Canosa. The Romans were defeated by 

 Hannibal, on the banks of the Aufidus in its vicinity, but there is con- 

 siderable question as to the exact locahty. The ruins of the town are 

 BtiU considerable. 



3 Forentvun was the site of the present Forenza in the Basilicate. It 

 is called by Horace and Diodorus Siculus, Ferentum. The ancient town 

 probably stood on a plain below the modem one. Some remains of it 

 are still to be seen. 



* On the site of GTenusimn stands the modem Ginosa. The ruins of 

 the ancient city of Herdonea are still to be seen in the vicinity of the 

 modem Ordona, on the high road from Is a pies to Otranto. Tliis place 

 witnessed the defeat by Hannibal of the Konians twice in two years. 



5 The mention of the Hyrini, or peopLj of Hyrium or Hyria, is pro- 

 bably an error, as he has already mentioned Uria, the same place, among 

 the Daunian Apulians, and as on the sea-shore. See p. 228. It is not 

 improbably a corrupted form of some other name. 



^ From the Frento, on the banks of which they dwelt. 



7 Viesta, on the promontory of Ghirgano, is said to occupy the site of 

 the ancient Merinum. 



8 According to Mannert, the modem town of Noja stands on the site 

 of ancient Netium. 



9 They inhabited Ruvo, in the territory oi" Bari, according to Hardouin. 

 ^° Their town was Silvium ; probably on the site of the modem 



Savigliano. 



^1 According to D'Anville their town was StrabeUum, now called 

 RapoUa. 



12 Their town is supposed to have been on the site of the modem 

 Bovino, in the Capitanata. 



12 The people of Apamestse ; probably on the site of the modem San 

 Yito, two miles west of Polignano. 



!•• The people of Butuntum, now Bitouto, an inland city of Apulia, 

 twelve miles from Barium, and five from tin. ^ea. No particulars of it are 

 known. All particulars too of most of the following tribes have perished. 



