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Clampetia formerly stood, the town of Temsa\ called Temese 
by the Greeks, and Terina founded by the people of Crotona^, 
with the extensive Grulf of Terina ; more inland, the town of 
Consentia^. Situate upon a peninsula^ is the river Ache- 
ron^, from which the people of Acherontia derive the name 
of their town; then Hippo, now called Yibo Yalentia, 
the Port of Hercules^, the river Metaurus^, the tovm of 
Tauroentum^, the Port of Orestes, and Medma^. JS^ext, the 
town of Scyllseum^^, the river Cratseis^^ the mother of Scylla 
it is said ; then the Pillar of Khegium, the Straits of Sicily, 
and the two promontories which face each other, Csenys^^ on 
the Italian, and Pelorus^^ on the Sicilian side, the distance be- 
tween them being twelve stadia. At a distance thence of 
twelve miles and a half, we come to Rhegium^^, after which 
begins Sila^^, a forest of the Apennines, and then the pro- 
of the modem Amantia. From other authors we find that it was still 
existing at this time. If such is the fact, the meaning will be " the place 
where the former municipal town of Clampetia stood," it being supposed 
to have lost in its latter years its municipal privileges. 
^ One of the ancient Ausonian towns, and afterwards colonized by the 
'^tohans. Like its namesake in Cyprus it was famous for its copper. 
Its site is now occupied by Torre di Lupi. 
2 A Greek city, almost totally destroyed by Hannibal ; Santa Eufemia 
occupies its site. 
3 One of the cities of the Bruttii ; now Cosenza. 
^ The part which now constitutes the Farther Calabria. 
^ Supposed to be the same as the Arconte, which falls into the 
Crathis near Consentia. Nothing is known of the town here alluded to, 
but it must not be confounded with Acherontia, the modern Acerenza, in 
Apuha, which was a different place. 
^ Supposed to have been the same as the modern port of Tropea. 
7 The modern Marro. 
^ Its ruins are supposed to be those seen near Palmi. 
^ Probably the modern Meha stands on its site. 
^0 A town on the promontory of the same name, now called Scilla or 
ScigHo, where the monster Scylla was fabled to have dwelt. 
^1 Homer says (Odyssey, xii. 124), that it had its name from the nymph 
Cratseis, the mother of Scylla. It is probably the small stream now called 
Fiume di Solano or dei Pesci. 
12 The modern Capo di Cavallo, according to the older commentators ; 
but more recent geographers think that the Punta del Pezzo was the point 
so called. ]Nf ow called Capo di Faro, h'om the hghthouse there erected. 
14 Originally a Grreek colony ; a Roman colony was settled there by 
Augustus. The modern city of Reggio occupies its site. 
1^ It extended south of Consentia to the Sicilian Straits, a distance of 
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