[2271] This feat was recorded by divers works of art set up in different places: it must have taken place in one of the eruptions, 477, 453, or 427, before the Christian era. The place where they lived was called Campus Piorum.
[2272] δι' ἡμερῶν τεσσάρων ἢ πέντε in Kramer’s text; in his notes he particularizes the readings of the different manuscripts and editions, some reading forty or fifty. He also records his sorrow at having preferred the reading of fifty days to thirty, in the passage relating to the fat beasts of Erythia, book iii. cap. 5, § 4, (page 255).
[2273] Literally, changes into coagulation.
[2274] About 758 or 735 B. C.
[2275] Book vi. chap. 1, § 12.
[2276] According to other authorities he was descended from Bacchus.
[2277] At present Corfù.
[2278] Cape Bruzzano.
[2279] Cicero’s Oratio Frumentaria supports this character of the country. Silius Italicus, lib. xiv. vers. 23, thus celebrates the richness of the soil,
“Multa solo virtus: jam reddere fœnus aratris,