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 422 STRABO. CASAUB. 277. two places, and is distant from each the number of miles last given. 1 JEgimurus also and other little islands lie off Sicily and Africa. So much for the islands. CHAPTER III. 1. HAVING previously passed over the regions of ancient Italy as far as Metapontium, we must now proceed to describe the rest. After it lapygia 2 comes next in order ; the Greeks call it Messapia, but the inhabitants, dividing it into cantons, call one the Salentini, 3 that in the neighbourhood of the Cape 4 lapygia, and another the Calabri ; 5 above these towards the north lie the Peucetii, 6 and those who are called Daunii 7 in the Greek language, but the inhabitants call 1 This M. Gossellin very satisfactorily proves to be 88. was confined to the peninsula of Tarentum. 3 The Sallentini, or Salentini, cannot be distinguished with accuracy from the Calabri, as the name is used by several writers in a very ex- tensive sense, and applied to the greater part of lapygia. 4 Capo di Leuca. 5 The district occupied by the Calabri seems to have been that mari- time part of the lapygian peninsula extending from the ancient Brun- dusium to the city of Hydruntum, answering nearly to what is now called Terra di Lecce. 6 Dionysius of Halicarnassus derives the name of this people from Peucetius, son of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, but they are generally spoken of in history as barbarians, differing in no essential respect from the Daunii, lapyges, and other neighbouring nations. 7 A note in the French translation remarks, that Strabo would have done well to add, " and also the Apuli properly so called." If we follow Strabo's testimony solely, we may almost describe the bounds of the Peucetii by four lines, viz. 1. From Tarentum to Brindisi. 2. Along the sea-shore from Brindisi to Bari. 3. From Bari to Garagnone or Gorgog- lione, the ancient Sylvium, if not even still nearer to Venosa. 4. From Garagnone to Tarentum, constituting what is called in modern geography Terra di Bari. The following are the limits of the Daunii. 1. From Ga- ragnone to Bari. 2. From Bari to Peschici or to Rodi. 3. Thence to Lucera ; and, 4. from Lucera to Garagnone. Thus they occupied a great part of La Puglia, with a portion of the Terra di Bari. With re- gard to those who, according to Strabo, were properly Apuli, they ex- tended from the neighbourhood of Lucera to Rodi or Peschici, thence to
 * A note in the French translation observes, that the lapygia of Strabo