. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. od immediately S. of Garganus, and was reputed to havebeen founded by Diomede. It was captured by Alexander of Epirus, 3 That the Greek tongue prevailed here to a great extent, appears fromHoraces allusion :— Canusini more hilinguis. Sat. i. 10, 3^. * To this Horace alludes :— Nam Canusi lapidosus ; aquse non ditior urna :Qui locus a forti Diomede est conditus olim. Sat. i. 5, gritty quality of the bread, to which lapidosus refers, is still noticedby travellers, and arises probably from
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. od immediately S. of Garganus, and was reputed to havebeen founded by Diomede. It was captured by Alexander of Epirus, 3 That the Greek tongue prevailed here to a great extent, appears fromHoraces allusion :— Canusini more hilinguis. Sat. i. 10, 3^. * To this Horace alludes :— Nam Canusi lapidosus ; aquse non ditior urna :Qui locus a forti Diomede est conditus olim. Sat. i. 5, gritty quality of the bread, to which lapidosus refers, is still noticedby travellers, and arises probably from defective millstones.^ Its wool was famous :—Te lanEe prope nobilemTonsse Luceriam, non citharge, decent. Hoe. Carm. iii. 15, 13. 6 Hence Horace speaks of himself as— Lucanus an Appulus, anceps,yam Yenusinus arat nnem sub utrumque colonus.—Sat. ii. 1, 34. The poets adopted the Greek form of the name, Sipus :—QuEesivit Calaber, subducta luce repente Immensis tenebris, etterram et littora Sipus. Sil. Ital. viii. 634. Quas recipit Salapina palus, et subdita Sipus Montibus. Lrc. v. 37 Coin of Yenusia. 576 CALABEIA. Book IY. in 330, was colonized by the Romans in 194 and again at a laterperiod, and became a place of considerable trade in corn. Salapia,Salpi, lay more to the S. on a lagoon named Salapina Palus,^ whichformerly had a natural, but now has only an artificial outlet to the was the head-quarters of Hannibal in 214, was captured by theRomans in 210, and again attacked by the Carthaginians in 208. It wasdestroyed by the Romans in the Social War, and never recovered itsprosperity. Of the less important towns we may notice Teanum, surnamed Apu-lum, Civitate, on the Frento, about 12 miles from its mouth, noticedas being conquered by the Romans in 318, and the head-quarters ofM. Junius Pera in the Second Punic War; Herdonia, Ordona, on theVia Egnatina, the scene of the Roman defeats by Hannibal in 212and 210; Asculum, Ascoli, 10 miles S
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