. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ro^ and the Calor, CaJore. § 8. The earliest inhabitants of this country were a Belasgic race,named (Enotrians : they seem to have been an unwarlike people, andwere gradually driven into the interior by the Greeks, who settledun the coast and gave to it and the coast of the adjacent provincenf Bruttium the title of Magna G-rsecia. The Lticanians Avere abranch of the Samnite nation, vdio pressed down southward |ro-bably about 400, subdued the Greek cities, and spread over the 3 It i? notice
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ro^ and the Calor, CaJore. § 8. The earliest inhabitants of this country were a Belasgic race,named (Enotrians : they seem to have been an unwarlike people, andwere gradually driven into the interior by the Greeks, who settledun the coast and gave to it and the coast of the adjacent provincenf Bruttium the title of Magna G-rsecia. The Lticanians Avere abranch of the Samnite nation, vdio pressed down southward |ro-bably about 400, subdued the Greek cities, and spread over the 3 It i? noticed by Virgil, Georg. iii. 147. ^ The beanty of the district about the Siris, called Siritis, is noticed by Archi-lochiis :— Ov yap Ti KaXog \copo?, ov5 edt/x^po? Ov(5 eparo?. olo? lifjio? pod?. Ap. Athen. xii. p. 525. 5 The craters of the Crathis were reputed to turn the hair to a golden hue : — 0 Sai9di \aLrai —vpcaLVLo: Y-paOis. ErRiP. Troad. 229. Crathis et huic Sybaris, nostris conterminus arvisElectro similes faciunt auroque capiilos. Ov. Jlet. xt. 315. Chap. XXYIl. TOAYXS. 581. Coin of Metaponram. whole of the interior. The towns of Lucania may he divided intotwo classes : those on the coast, which were of Greek origin; andthose in the interior, which were either native Liicanian toAvns orRoman colonies of a later date. The former class comprises someof the most important towns of Magna Grajcia, such as Heraclea,Sybaris, Yelia, and Pa?stum. In the latter class we may speciallynotice Grumentum on the Aciris. AVe shall describe these toAvns inorder, commencing with those on the E. coast, from X. to S. Metapontxim was situated on the coast between the rivers Bradauusand Casuentus, about 24 miles from Tarentum. It was founded by Achseans under Leucippus. ^ probably about 700-69<) ,on the site (as it was said, ofan earlier town. The phi-losopher Pythagoras retiredand died there. In 415 theMetapontines joined theAthenians in their Sicilianexpedition. In 332
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