. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. istance N. of the Laus. Its foundation is attributedto the Rhegians under Micythus in 470, but there was certainly anearlier town, probably a colony from Siris, on the spot. The Romanssent colonies there in 194 and again in 186. Elea or Velia, Castell aMare delta Brucca, stood midway between Buxentum and was founded by the fugitive Phocaeans about 540 Though itbecame undoubtedly a prosperous place, w^e know nothing of its chief celebrity is due to the philosopli
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. istance N. of the Laus. Its foundation is attributedto the Rhegians under Micythus in 470, but there was certainly anearlier town, probably a colony from Siris, on the spot. The Romanssent colonies there in 194 and again in 186. Elea or Velia, Castell aMare delta Brucca, stood midway between Buxentum and was founded by the fugitive Phocaeans about 540 Though itbecame undoubtedly a prosperous place, w^e know nothing of its chief celebrity is due to the philosopliical school planted there byXenophanes of Colophon, and carried on by Parmenides and frequently visited Velia, and it appears to have been noted forits healthiness. ^ It possessed a famous temple of Ceres. P^stum,Pesto, the Posidonia of the Geeeks, was situated about 5 miles S. of theSilarus. It was a colony from Sybaris, founded probably by the ex-pelled Troezenians of that place. We know nothing of its early his-tory ; it was captured by the Lucanians some time before 390, and. Coin of Thurii. 6 Horace refers to this wlien he writes— Quae sit hiems Veliae, quod coelum, Vala, Salerni. —J^p, i. 15, 1. Chap. XXVII. TOAVXS. 583
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