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10 HISTORY OF GREECE. nian power seems to have begun and to have gradually increased from about 430 B. c. At its maximum (about 380-360 B. c.), it comprehended most part of the inland territory, and considerable portions of the coast, especially the southern coast, bounded by an imaginary line drawn from Metapontum on the Tarentinp Gulf, across the breadth of Italy to Poseidonia or Paistum, near the mouth of the river Silaris, on the Tyrrhenian or Lower sea. It was about 356 B. c., that the rural serfs, called Brattians, 1 re- belled against the Lucanians, and robbed them of the southern part of this territory ; establishing an independent dominion in the inland portion of what is now called the Farther Calabria extending from a boundary line drawn across Italy between Thurii and Laus, down to near the Sicilian strait. About 332 u. C., commenced the occasional intervention of the Epirotic kings from the one side, and the persevering efforts of Rome from the other, which, after long and valiant struggles, left Sam- nites, Lucanians, Bruttians, all Roman subjects. At the period which we have now reached, these Lucanians, by Italians, CEnotrians, and Chonians, Strabo proceeds to say Ovrof HKV ovv uTrl.ovaTtpuf eiprjxe nal apxaiKuf, ovfiev 6topiaaf trepl TUJ> AEVKOVUV KOI ruv EpeTTiuv. The German translator Grosskurd understands these words as meaning, that Antiochus " did not distinguish the Lucanians from the Bruttians." But if we read the paragraph through, it will appear, I think, tiiat Strabo means to say, that Antiochus had stated nothing positive re- specting either Lucanians or Brattians. Niebuhr (p. 96 vt sufira) affirms mat Antiochus represented the Lucanians as having extended themselves is far as Laus; which I cannot find. The date of Antiochus seems not precisely ascertainable. His work on Sicilian history was carried down from early times to 424 B. c. (Diodor. xii. 71). His silence respecting the Lucanians goes to confirm the belief that the date of their conquest of the territory called Lucania was con- siderably later than that year. Polysenus (ii. 10. 2-4) mentions war as carried on by the inhabitants of Thurii, under Kleandridas the father of Gylippus, against the Lucanians. From the age and circumstances of Kleandridas, this can hardly be later than 420 B. c. 1 Strabo, vi. p. 256. The Periplus of Skylax (s. 12, 13) recognizes Ln- tania as extending down to Rhegium. Tho date to which this Periplus refers appears to be about 370-360 B. c.: see an instructive article among Niebuhr's Kleine Schriften, p. 105-130. Skylax does not mention t'i Bruttians (Klauscn, Hekatseus and Skylax, p. 274. Berlin. 1831 h