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the Norbanenses, tlie Palionenses, the Sturnini^ and the 
Tutini : there are also the following Salentine nations ; the 
Aletini^, the Basterbini^, the Neretini, the Uxentini, and 
the Veretini"*. 
CHAP. 17. (12.) — THE EOUETH BEGIOK OE ITALY. 
We now come to the fourth region, which includes the 
most v^aliant probably of all the nations of Italy. Upon the 
coast, in the territory of the Erentani^, after the river Tifernus, 
we find the river Trinium^, with a good harbour at its mouth, 
the towns of Histonium^, Buca^, and Ortona, and the river 
Aternus ^. In the interior are the Anxani surnamed Erentani, 
the Higher and Lower Carentini^^, and the Lanuenses ; in the 
territory of the Marrucini, the Teatini^^ ; in that of thePeligni, 
the Corfinienses^^, the Supersequani^^, and the Sulmonenses^^ ; 
^ D'AnviUe places their city, Sturni, at the present Ostuni, not far 
irom. the Adriatic, and fourteen leagues from Otranto. 
2 The people of Aletium already mentioned. 
3 Their town possibly stood on the site of the present village of Yeste, 
to the west of Castro. The Neretini were probably the people of the 
present Nardo. 
* Probably the people of the town which stood on the site of the pre- 
sent San Yerato. 
5 They occupied what is now called the Abruzzo Inferiore. 
6 Now the Trigno. 
7 On the site of the present Yasto d'Ammone, five miles south of the 
Punta della Penna. There are numerous remains of the ancient city. 
' According to Strabo Buca bordered on the territory of Teanum, 
which would place its site at Termoh, a seaport three rniles from the 
mouth of the Biferno or Tifernus. Other writers, however, following 
Pliny, have placed it on the Punta della Penna, where considerable re- 
mains were visible in the l7th century. Ortona still retains its ancient 
name. ^ Now the Pescara. 
10 The sites of their towns are unknown ; but D Anville supposes the 
Higher or Upper Carentum to have occupied the site of the modern Civita 
Burella, and the Lower one the Civita del Conte. 
11 Teate is supposed to be the present Chieti. 
12 The people of Corfinium, the chief city of the Pehgni. It is sup- 
posed to have remained in existence up to the tenth century. Its ruins 
are seen near Pentima, about the church of San Pelino. 
13 The site of Supersequum is occupied by the present Castel Yecchio 
Subequo. 
I'* The people of Sulmo, a town ninety miles from Home. It was the 
birth-place of Ovid, and was famous for the coldness of its waters, a 
