230 plijs-y's KATTJEAL HISTOET. [Book III. 
Atinates^ the Arpani, tlie Borcaiii, tlie CoUatmi, the Cori- 
nenses, the Cannenses^, rendered famous by the defeat of the 
Homans, theDirini, theForentani^, the Grenusini'^, the Herdo- 
iiienses, the Hyrini^, the Larinates surnamed Trentani^, the 
Merinates^ of Garganus, the Mateolani, the Netini^, theE^u- 
bustini^, the Silvini^^, the Strapellini^^ the Turmentini, the 
Yibinates^^, the Venusini, and the Ulurtini. In the interior 
of Calabria there are the ^getini, the Apamestini^^, the 
Argentini, the Butuntinenses^'*, theDeciani, the Grrumbestini, 
I The people of Atinum, a town of Lucania, situate in the upper vaUey 
of the Tanager, now the Yalle di Diano. Its site is ascertained by the 
ruins near the village of Atena, five miles north of La Sala. Collatia 
was situate on the Anio, now called the Teverone. 
^ The ruins of the town of Canuse are still visible at a place called 
Canne, about eight miles from Canosa. The Romans were defeated by 
Hannibal, on the banks of the Aufidus in its vicinity, but there is con- 
siderable question as to the exact locahty. The ruins of the town are 
still considerable. 
3 Forentum was the site of the present Torenza in the Basilicate. It 
is called by Horace and Diodorus Siculus, Ferentum. The ancient town 
probably stood on a plain below the modern one. Some remains of it 
are still to be seen. 
^ On the site of Grenusium stands the modern Grinosa. The ruins of 
the ancient city of Herdonea are still to be seen in the vicinity of the 
modern Ordona, on the high road from Naples to Otranto. This place 
witnessed the defeat by Hannibal of the Homans twice in two years. 
5 The mention of the Hyrini, or people of Hyrium or Hyria, is pro- 
bably an error, as he has already mentioned Uria, the same place, among 
the Daunian Apulians, and as on the sea-shore. See p. 228. It is not 
improbably a corrupted form of some other name. 
6 From the Frento, on the banks of which they dwelt. 
7 Yiesta, on the promontory of Grargano, is said to occupy the site of 
the ancient Merinum. 
s According to Mannert, the modern town of Noja stands on the site 
of ancient Netium. 
9 They inhabited Buvo, in the territory of Bari, according to Hardouin. 
^0 Their town was Silvium ; probably on the site of the modern 
Savigliano. 
II According to D'Anville their town was Strabellum, now called 
Rapolla. 
12 Then' town is supposed to have been on the site of the modern 
Bovino, in the Capitanata. 
13 The people of Apam-estse ; probably on the site of the modem San 
Yito, two miles west of Polignano. 
I'' The people of Butuntum, now Bitonto, an inland city of Apulia, 
twelve miles from Barium, and five from the sea. No particulars of it are 
known. All particulars too of most of the following tribes have perished. 
