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tre learn from Antias that king L. Tarquinius took Apiolse^ 
a town of the Latins, and with its spoils laid the first foun- 
dations of the Capitol. From Siirrentum^ to the river 
Silarus^, the former territory of Picentia^ extends for a 
distance of thirty miles. This belonged to the Etruscans, 
and was remarkable for the temple of the Argive Juno, 
founded by Jason ^ In it was Picentia, a town^ of the ter- 
ritory of ISalernum'^. 
CHAP. 10. — THE THIED BEaiOIT OE ITALY. 
At the Silarus begins the third region of Italy, consisting 
of the territory of Lucania and Bruttium ; here too there 
have been no few changes of the population. These districts 
1 This city took the lead in the war of the Latin cities against Tar- 
quinius Priscus. Grell and Nibby think that it was situate about eleven 
nnles from Rome, a mile to the south of the Appian way, where there 
are some remains that indicate the site of an ancient city, near the stream 
called the Fosso delle Fratocche. Livy tells us that with the spoils 
thence derived, Tarquinius celebrated the Ludi Magni for the first time. 
^ Opposite Caprese, and situate on the Promontory of Minerva. Sor- 
rento now stands on its site. 
3 The modern Silaro ; it was the boundary between Lucania and 
Campania, and rises in the Apennines. 
'* A town in the south of Campania, at the head of the Grulf of 
Pffistum. In consequence of the aid which they gave to Hannibal, the 
inhabitants were forced to abandon their town and live in the adjoining 
villages. The name of Picentini was given, as here stated, to the inha- 
bitants of all the territory between the Promontory of Minerva and the 
river Silarus. They were a portion of the Sabine Picentes, who were 
transplanted thither after the conquest of Picenum, B.C. 268. The mo- 
dern Vicenza stands on its site. 
^ The Argonaut. Probably this was only a vague tradition. 
^ By using the genitive ' Salemi,' he would seem to imply that the 
Roman colony of Salernmn then gave name to the district of which Pi- 
centia was the chief town. Ajasson however has translated it merely 
" Salernum and Picentia." * Intus ' can hardly mean " inland," as 
Picentia was near the coast, and so was Salernum. 
7 This was an ancient town of Campania, at the innermost corner of 
the Gidf of Psestum, situate near the coast, on a height at the foot of 
which lay its harbour. It attained great prosperity, as Salerno, in the 
middle ages, and was noted for its School of Health established there ; 
which issued periodically rules for the preservation of health in Latin 
Leonine verse. 
