Chap. 17.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTEIES, ETC. 231 the Norbanenses, the Palionenses, the Sturnini^ and the Tutini : there are also the following Salentine nations ; the Aletini-, the Basterbini^, the Neretini, the Uxentini, and the Veretini"*. CHAP. 17. (12.) — THE EOIJETH EEGI02f OP ITALY. "We now come to the fourth region, which includes the most v^aliant probably of all the nations of Italy. Upon the coast, in the territory of the Frentani^, after the river Tifernus, we find the river Trinium^, with a good harbour at its mouth, the towns of Histonium'^, Buca^, and Ortona, and the river Aternus®. In the interior are the Anxani surnamed Frentani, the Higher and Lower Carentini^*^, and the Lanuenses ; in the territory of the Marrucini, the Teatini^^ ; in that of thePeligni, the Corfinienses^-, the Superaequani^^, and the Sulmonenses^'* ; ^ D'Anville places their city, Stunii, at the present Ostuni, not far from the Adriatic, and foiu'teen leagues from Otranto. 2 The people of Aletiiim already mentioned. 3 Their town possibly stood on the site of the present village of Veste, to the west of Castro. The Neretini were probably the people of the present Nardo. ^ Probably the people of the town which stood on the site of the pre- sent San Verato. ^ They occupied what is now called the Abnizzo Inferiors. ^ Now the Trigno. 7 On the site of the present Vasto d'Ammone, five miles south of the Punta della Penna. There are numerous remains of the ancient city. ' According to Strabo Buca bordered on the temtory of Teanum, which would place its site at Termoh, a seaport tliree miles from the mouth of the Bifemo or Tifernus. Other wi-iters, however, following Phny, have placed it on the Punta della Penna, where considerable re- mains were visible in the 17th century. Ortona still retains its ancient name. ^ Now the Pescara. ^^ The sites of their towns are unknown ; but D'Anville supposes the Higher or Upper Carentum to have occupied the site of the modem Civita Burella, and the Lower one the Civita del Conte. ^1 Teate is supposed to be the present Chicti. ^2 The people of Corfinium, the chief city of the Pehgni. It is sup- posed to have remained in existence up to the tenth century. Its ruins ai'e seen near Pcntima, about the church of San Pehno. ^3 The site of Supera;quum is occupied by the present Caatel Vecchio Subequo. ^* The people of Sulmo, a toNTi ninety miles from Rome. It was the birth-place of Ovid, and was famoiis for the coldness of its waters, a
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