Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . nhabited spot onthe plain, derives its name from a castellated edificeof the middle ages; it is situated above IJ milefrom the sea, and the same distance from the riverBasiento, the ancient Casuentus. Immediately op-posite to it, on the sea-shore, is a small salt-waterbasin or lagoon, now called the Lac/o di Sta. Pela-gina. which, though neither deep nor spacious, inall probability formed the ancient port of Meta-pontum. Metapontum was thus situated between the tworivers Bradanus and Casuentus, and occupied (withits port and appurtenances) a considerab
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . nhabited spot onthe plain, derives its name from a castellated edificeof the middle ages; it is situated above IJ milefrom the sea, and the same distance from the riverBasiento, the ancient Casuentus. Immediately op-posite to it, on the sea-shore, is a small salt-waterbasin or lagoon, now called the Lac/o di Sta. Pela-gina. which, though neither deep nor spacious, inall probability formed the ancient port of Meta-pontum. Metapontum was thus situated between the tworivers Bradanus and Casuentus, and occupied (withits port and appurtenances) a considerable part ofthe intermediate space. Appian speaks of a riverl)etween IMetapontum and Tarentum of the samename, by which he probably means the Bradanus,which may have been commonly known as the riverof Metapontum. This is certainly the only rivet-large enough to answer to the description which hegives of the meeting of Octavian and Antony whichtook place on its banks. (Appian, B. C. v. 93, 94.) The coins of Jletapontum, as already observed,. com OF METAPONTUM. JIETAUEUS. are very numerous; and many of the later ones ofvery beautiful workmanship. Those of more an-cient date are of the style called incuse, like theearly coins of Crotona and Sybaris. The one in theannexed figure has on the obverse the head of thehero Leucippus, the founder of the city. But themore common type on the obverse is the head ofCeres. [E. H. B.] METARIS (Merapls, Ptol. ii. 3. § 6), an estu-ary in Britain ; the Wasli between JSiorfolk andLincolnshire. [C. R. S.] METAUEUJI (JSlaravpos, Steph. B.), a city onthe W. coast of Bruttium, at the mouth of the riverof the same name. According to Stephanus ofByzantium, it was a colony of the Locrians, butseems never to have risen to any importance; andits name is chiefly known because, according to someaccounts, it was the birthplace of the poet Stesi-chorus, who was more generally regarded as a nativeof Himera. (Steph. B. s. v.; Suid. 2tt;(7i-Xopos.) Steplianus
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