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the Norbanenses, the Palionenses, the Sturniiii\ and the 

 Tutini : there are also the following Salentine nations ; the 

 Aletini^, the Basterbini', the Neretini, the Uxentini, and 

 the Veretini^. 



CHAP. 17. (12.) — THE FOUETH EEQION OF ITALY. 



We now come to the fourth region, which includes the 

 most valiant probably of all the nations of Italy. Upon the 

 coast, in the territoirof the Frentani', after the river Tifemus, 

 we find the river Trmium", with a good harbour at its mouth, 

 the towns of Histonium', Buca*, and Ortona, and the river 

 Aternus'. In the interior are the Anxani sumamed Frentani, 

 the Higher and Lower Carentini'", and the Lanuenses ; in the 

 territory of the Marrucini, the Teatini" ; in that of thePeligni, 

 the Corfinienses^^, the Superaequani", and the Sulmonenses" ; 



* D'Anville places their city, Stumi, at the present Ostnni, not far 

 fifom the Adriatic, and fourteen leagues from Otranto. 



* The people of Aletium already mentioned. 



* Their town possibly stood on the site of the present village of Veste, 

 to the west of Castro. The Neretini were probably the people of the 

 present Nardo. 



* Probably the people of the town which stood on the site of the pre- 

 sent San Verato. 



6 They occupied what is now called the Abruzzo Inferiore. 



* Now the Trigno. 



"^ On the site of the present Vast© d'Ammone, five miles south of the 

 Pimta della Penna. There are numerous remains of the ancient city. 



' According to Strabo Buca bordered on the territory of Teanum, 

 which would place its site at TermoU, a seaport three miles from the 

 mouth of the Bifemo or Tifemus. Other writers, however, following 

 Pliny, have placed it on the Pimta della Penna, where considerable re- 

 mains were visible in the 17th centiuy. Ortona still retains its ancient 

 name. • Now the Pescara. 



^0 The sites of their towns are unknown ; but D'AnvUle supposes the 

 Higher or Upper Carentvmi to have occupied the site of the modem Civita 

 Burella, and the Lower one the Civita del Conte. 



^^ Teate is supposed to be the present Chieti. 



^2 The people of Corfinium, the chief city of the Peligni. It is sup- 

 posed to have remained in existence up to the tenth centiiry. Its ruins 

 are seen near Pentima, about the church of San Pelino. 



^3 The site of Supersequmn is occupied by the present Castel Yecchio 

 Subequo. 



1^ The people of Sulmo, a town ninety miles from Rome. It was the 

 birth-place of Ovid, and was famous for the coldness of its waters, a 



