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have been possessed by tlie Pelasgi, tbe (Enotrii, tbe Itali, 
the Morgetes, the Siculi, and more especially by people who 
emigrated from Grreece\ and, last of all, by the Leucani, a 
people sprung from the Samnites, who took possession under 
the command of Lucius. We find here the town of Psestum^, 
which received from the Grreeks the name of Posidonia, the 
Grulf of Psestum^, the town of Elea, now known as Yelia ^, 
and the Promontory of Palinurum^, a point at which the land 
falls inwards and forms abav^, the distance across which to 
the pillar'^ of Hhegium is 100 miles. Next after Palinurum 
comes the river Melpes^, then the town of Buxentum^, 
called in [Magna] Grrsecia Pyxus, and the river Laus ; there 
was formerly a town^^ also of the same name. 
At this spot begins the coast of Bruttium, and we come 
to the town of Blanda^\ the river Batum^^, Parthenius, a 
port of the Phocians, the bay of Vibo^^, the place^^ where 
^ " GrrjBciae maxime populi." This may also be rendered " a people 
who mostly emigrated from Grreece," in reference to the Sicuh or Sici- 
lians, but the other is probably the correct translation. 
2 A town of Lucania, colonized by the Sybarites about B.C. 524. In 
the time of Augustus it seems to have been principally famous for the 
exquisite beauty of its roses. Its rums are extremely magnificent. 
3 Now the dolfo di Salerno. 
^ A Grreek town founded by thePhocseans. It was the birth-place of 
the philosophers Parmenides andZeno, who founded a school of philosophy 
known as the Eleatic. Castell' a Mare della Brucca stands on its site. 
^ Now Capo di Pahnuro ; said to have received its name from Pah- 
nm'us, the pilot of JEneas, who fell into the sea there and was mm^dered 
by the natives. See Yirgil, ^neid, B. vi. 1. 381 et seq. 
^ Now the Grolfo di Pohcastro. 
This tower or column was erected in the vicinity of Rhegium on the 
Straits of Sicily. It was 100 stadia, or about eight miles, from the town, 
and at it passengers usually embarked for Sicily. The spot is now called 
Torre di Carallo. s Now the Faraone. 
9 A Grreek colony. The present Pohcastro occupies very nearly its 
site. It seems to have received its name from the cultivation of box 
trees in its vicinity. 
10 Qj. jnore properly Laos, originally a Grreek colony. In the vicinity 
is the modern town of Laino, and the river is called the Lao. 
Ptolemy mentions it as an inland town, and Livy speaks of it as a 
Lucanian city. It probably stood near the modern Maratea, twelve miles 
south-east of Pohcastro. The modern Bato. 
The bay of Bivona, formerly Yibo, the Itahan name for the Greek j 
eity of Hippo or Hippona. On its site stands the modern Bivona. \ 
" Locus Clampetise." Clampetia or Lampetia stood in the vicinity 
