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Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ent inflicted subsequently by the Romans wasvery severe. In the Social War the Apulians embraced the side of theallies, and the renewed punishment then inflicted on them by theRomans proved fatal to the prosperity of the province. XII. Calabkia. § 6. Calabria was the name given to the peninsula which runs outto the S.E. of Tarentum, and which is commonly known as the s See Luc. v. 377, in previous note. ^ Ut ventum ad Cannas, urbis vestigia priscse,Defigunt diro signa infelicia vallo. Sil. Ital. viii. 624. 1 Postera tempestas melior, via pejor, adusqueBari mcenia ^iscosi. Hon. Sat. i. 5, 96. 2 Horace seems to describe its water as bad (lymphis iratis ), but it is nowcelebrated for tbe abundance and excellence of its water. The pretended miraclewhich he witnessed is also noticed by Pliny (ii. 111). Dehinc Gnatia, LymphisIratis exstructa, dedit risusque jocosque,Dum flamma sine thura liquescere limine sacroPersuadere cupit. Sat. i. 5, 97. Chap. XXVII. XAME — IXHABITANTS — TOWS. 577
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Brundiisiiim. heel of Itslj. The Greeks named it Messapia and lapygia— terms which are used with varying significance by different writers.The whole of this peninsula is occupied by broad and gently undu-lating hills of small elevation. The soil is dry, being of a calcareousnature : it was nevertheless famed for its fertility, and particularlyfor its growth of olives. The province was also famous for its horses,wines, fruit, honey, and wool, and, in another sense, for its venomousserpents. It possesses no stream of any size. The inhabitants ofCalabria were divided into two tribes—the Messapii or Calabri proper,who occupied the E., and the Sallentini, who occupied the W. andS. coasts. These tribes belonged to the Pelasgian stock, and Averenot originally distinct. They appear to have attained a certain de-gree of culture before the appearance of the Greek settlers, and theypossessed the towns of Hydruntum and Hyria. The foundation ofTarentum, about 708 B.C., formed an era in the his

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