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one of the most famous ports of Italy, and, altliougli more 
distant, affords hj far the safest passage across to Grreece, 
the place of disembarkation being Dyrrachium, a city of 
lUyria ; the distance across is 225 miles. 
Adjoining Brundusinm is the territory of the Pediculi^ ; 
nme youths and as many maidens, natives of lUyria, became 
the parents of sixteen nations. The towns of the Pediculi 
are Eudise^, Egnatia^, and Barium^ ; their rivers are the lapyx 
(so called from the son of Daedalus, who was king there, and 
who gave it the name of lapygia), the Pactius^, and the 
Aufidus, which rises in the Hirpinian mountains and flow s 
past Canusium^. 
At this point begins Apulia, surnamed the Dau.nian, from the 
Daunii, who take their name from a former chief, the father-in- 
law of Diomedes. In this territory are the towns of Salapia'^, 
famous for Hannibal's amour with a courtezan, Sipontum^, 
1 They occupied probably a portion of the modem Terra di Eari. 
2 gaid by Hardouin to be the modern Oarouigna or Carovigni ; but 
Mannert asserts it to be the same as the modern E-uvo. 
^ Or Grnatia, called by Strabo and Ptolemy a city of Apuha. It was 
probably the last town of the Peucetians towards the frontiers of Calabria. 
Horace, in the accoimt of his journey to Brundusium (I. Sat. i. 97-100), 
makes it his last halting-place, and ridicules a pretended miracle shown 
by the inhabitants, who asserted that incense placed on a certain altar 
was consumed without fire being appKed. The same story is referred to 
by Phny, B. ii. c. Ill, where he incorrectly makes Egnatia a town gf the 
Salentini. Its ruins are visible on the sea-coast, about six miles S.E. of 
MonopaU, and an old town still bears the name of Torre d' Agnazzo. 
^ Now Bari, a considerable city. In the time of Horace it was only a 
fishing town. It probably had a considerable intercourse with Grreece, 
if we may judge from the remains of art found here. 
^ It is difficult to identify these rivers, from the nmnber of small tor- 
rents between Brindisi and the Ofanto or Aufidus. According to 
Mannert, the Pactius is the present Canale di Terzo. 
^ An important city of Apuha, said to have been founded by Diomedes. 
Horace alludes to its deficiency of water. The modern Canosa is built 
on probably the site of the citadel of the ancient city, the ruins of which 
are very extensive. 
7 The ruins of this place are still to be seen at some httle distance 
from the coast, near the village of Salpi. The story about Hannibal was 
very probably of Eoman invention, for Justin .and Frontinus speak in 
praise of his continence and temperance. Appian however gives some 
further particulars of this alleged amour. 
^ The present Manfredonia has arisen from the decay of this town, in 
^ consequence of the unhealtliiness of the locahty. Ancient Uria is sup- 
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