[1996] Several inscriptions in Oscan, and Etruscan, characters have been discovered in the ruins of Herculaneum. Lanzi, (tom. iii.,)—Romanelli Viaggio a Pompei ed Ercolano.
[1997] Pompeii.
[1998] The ancient Sarnus.
[1999] These Pelasgi were established among the Tyrrhenians.
[2000] It is believed that the Samnites possessed both places, 310, B. C.
[2001] The Romans must have been masters of these cities 272, B. C. (Livy, Epit. xiv.)
[2002] Nola resisted, under the able direction of Marcellus, all the efforts of Hannibal after the battle of Cannæ. A remarkable inscription in Oscan characters relative to this town is explained by Lanzi, (tom. iii. 612,) its name is there written NUFLA. See Cramer’s Ancient Italy, vol. ii. p. 211.
[2003] Nocera de’ Pagani.
[2004] Sorrento.
[2005] Punta della Campanella.