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tlie river Batinus ; Truentum\ witli its river of tlie same name, 
which place is the only remnant of the Liburni^ in Italy ; the 
river Albula^ ; Tervium, at which the Prsetutian district ends, 
and that of Picenum begins ; the town of Cupra"*, Castellum 
Pirmanorum^, and above it the colony of Asculum^, the most 
illustrious in Picenum ; in the interior there is the town 
of Novana^. Upon the coast we have Cluana^, Potentia, 
Numana, founded by the Siculi, and Ancona^, a colony 
founded by the same people on the Promontory of Cumerus, 
forming an elbow of the coast, where it begins to bend in- 
wards, and distant from Garganus 183 miles. In the interior 
^ The river still has the name of Tronto ; Porto di Martin Scuro 
occupies the site of the town. 
2 Who had crossed over as colonists from the opposite coast of Illy- 
ricum. 
3 According to Mannert the river Tesino is the same as the Albula, 
and Tervium is the modern town of Grrotte a Mare ; but D' Anville makes 
the latter to be the town of Cupra next mentioned. 
This was called Cupra Maritima, to distinguish it from the town of 
the Cuprenses Montani, afterwards mentioned. It is said by Strabo to 
have had its name from the Tyrrhenian name of Juno. Prom the dis- 
covery of an inscription belonging to her temple here, there is httle doubt 
that D'Anville is right in his suggestion that the site of Cupra is at 
Grrotte a Mare, eight miles from the mouth of the Truentus or 
Tronto. 
5 "The Fortress of the Firmani," five miles from Firmum, an important 
city of Picenum. The Fortress was situate at the mouth of the Leta, and 
was the port of the city. It is still called Porto di Fermo. 
* Often caUed "Asculum Picenum" to distinguish it from Asculum in 
Apuha. It was a place of considerable strength, and played a great part 
in the Social War. It is unknown at what period it became a Boman 
colony. The modern city of AscoH stands on its site. 
' Now called Monte Novano, according to D'Anville and Brotier. 
s Its site is supposed to have been that of the small town called 
Santo Elpidio a Mare, four miles from the sea, and the same distance 
north of Fermo. The remains of Potentia are supposed to be those in 
the vicinity of the modern Porto di Recanati. Niunana is supposed to 
be the modern Umana, near the Cuscione, where, in the seventeenth 
century, extensive ruins were to be seen. 
9 It still retains its ancient name, which was derived from the Grreek 
dyKOJv " the elbow," it being situate on a promontory which forms a 
curve, and almost encloses the port. The promontory is still called Monte 
Comero. A triumphal arch, erected in honour of Trajan, who con- 
structed a new mole for the port, is still in fine preservation, and there 
^re remains of an amphitheatre. 
