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 (ENOTRIANS.-OSCAXS. 353 ritory between Latium and the Silarus, expelling or subjugating the CEcotrian inhabitants, and planting outlying settlements even down to the strait of Messina and the Lipanean isles. Hence the more precise Thucydides designates the Campanian territory, in which Cumae stood, as the country of the Opici ; a denomination which Aristotle extends to the river Tiber, so as to comprehend within it Rome and Latium. 1 Not merely Campania, but in earlier times even Latium, originally occupied by a Sikel or (Enotrian population, appears to have been partially overrun and subdued by fiercer tribes from the Apennines, and had thus received a certain intermixture of Oscan race. But in the regions south of Latium. these Oscan conquests were still more overwhelming ; and to this cause (in the belief of inquiring Greeks of the fifth century B. c.) 2 were owing the first migrations of the CEnotrian quae Apcnnino finitur, dicta est Ausonia," etc. The original Ausonia would thus coincide nearly with the territory called Samnium, after the Sabine emigrants had conquered it: see Livy, viii, 16 ; Strabo, v, p. 250 ; Virg. JEn. vii, 727, with Servius. Skymnus Chius (v, 227) has copied from the same source as Festus. For the extension of Ausonians along various parts of the more southern coast of Italy, even to Rhcgium, as well as to the Lipa- ni'an isles, see Diodor. v, 7-8 ; Cato, Origg. Fr. lib. iii, ap. Probum ad Virg. Bucol. v, 2. The Pythian priestess, in directing the Chalkidic emigrants to Rhegium, says to them, 'Evda TroTuv olni&, 61601 6e aoi Avaova ^upai> (Diodor. Fragm. xiii, p. 11, ap Scriptt. Vatic, ed. Mali). Tcmesa is Auso- nian in Strabo, vi, p. 255. 1 Thucyd. vi. 3 ; Aristot. ap. Dionys. Hal. A. II. i, 72. 'A^atJJy rtvac TUV UTTU Tpolrif avaKo^ofievuv, ih&elv elf rov TUTTOV TOVTOV r//f 'O-tKJ/o, of Kafalrai AUTIOV. Even in the time of Cato the elder, the Greeks comprehended the Romans tinder the general, and with them contemptuous, designation of Opici (Cato ap. Plin. H. N. xxii, 1 : see Antiochus ap. Strab. v, p. 242). 2 Thucyd. vi, 2. 2<K/u fie l^ 'Ira/taf QevyovTEf 'OiriKoiif 6iJ3r]aav t-f "ZiK.ef.iav (see a Fragment of the geographer Menippus of Pergamns, in Hudson's Geogr. Minor, i, p. 76). Antiochus stated that the Sikels were driven out of Italy into Sicily by the Opicians and CEnotrians ; but the Sikels themselves, according to him, were also CEnotrians (Dionys. II. i, 12-22). It is remarkable that Antiochus (who wrote at a time when the name of Rome had not begun to exercise that fascination over men's minds which the Roman power afterwards occasioned), in setting forth the mythical antiquity of the Sikels and CEnotrians, represents the eponymous Sikelus aa an exile from Rome, who came into the s< uth of Italy to the king Merges, successor of Italus, 'Err*; oe "IraAof narryi/pa, Mopj^f iftaaSiewftf. 'ErJ VOL. iii. 23oc.