Tibur  (TivoH),  Carsioli  and  Reate  (Rieti),  Furcona
(Aquila),  Amiternum  (San  Vettorino)  and  the  region
of  the  Marsians  and  their  lake  which  is  called  Fucinus
(Celano).  I  think  that  the  territory  of  the  Marsians
should  be  reckoned  within  the  province  of  Valeria,
because  it  is  not  at  all  described  by  the  ancients  in  the
catalogue  of  the  provinces  of  Italy,  but  if  any  one
may  prove  by  correct  reasoning  that  this  is  a  pro-
vince by  itself,  his  sensible  opinion  by  all  means  should
be  accepted.  The  fourteenth  province,  Samnium,  be-
ginning from  the  Piscaria,  lies  between  Campania,  the
Adriatic  Sea  and  Apulia.  In  it  are  the  cities  of  Theate
(Chieti),  Aufidena,  Hisernia  and  Samnium,  fallen  to
ruin  by  old  age,  from  which  the  whole  province  is
named,  and  that  most  wealthy  Beneventum  (Benevento)
the  capital  of  these  provinces.  Furthermore,  the  Sam-
nites  received  their  name  formerly  from  the  spears
which  they  were  wont  to  carry  and  which  the  Greeks
called  "  saynia."  *

Chapter  XXI.
The  fifteenth  of  the  provinces  is  Apulia,  and  united
with  it  is  Calabria.*  In  it  is  the  Salentine  territory.
This  has  Samnium  and  Lucania  on  the  west  and  south-
west, but  on  the  east  it  is  bounded  by  the  Adriatic  Sea.
It  contains  the  tolerably  rich  cities  of  Luceria  (Lucera),
Sepontum   (Siponto),  Canusium   (Canosa),  Agerentia

^  Idwia,  more  properly  a  javelin.
'  Not  the  present  Calabria  but  the  southeastern  extremity  of  the
Adriatic  shore  of  Italy.
BOOK  II.  ^^

(Acerenza?),  Brundisium  (Brindisi),  Tarentum  (Tar-
anto)  and  in  the  left  horn  of  Italy  which  extends  fifty
miles,  Ydrontum  (Otranto),  well  adapted  to  commerce.*
Apulia  is  named  from  "  destruction,"  *  for  more  quickly
there  (than  elsewhere)  does  the  herbage  of  the  land
perish  in  the  heat  of  the  sun.
Chapter  XXII.
