[2424] Brundusium, now Brindisi.
[2425] Castro. This temple is now changed into the church of Sancta Maria in finibus terræ. See Capmart. de Chaupy, tom. iii. page 529.
[2426] Capo di Leuca. Pliny, lib. iii. cap. 11, says, Inde promontorium quod Acran Iapygian vocant, quo longissime in maria procurrit Italia. The Promontorium Iapygium, or Sallentinum, presented a conspicuous landmark to mariners sailing from Greece to Sicily. The fleets of Athens, after passing the Peloponnesus, are represented on this passage as usually making for Corcyra, from whence they steered straight across to the promontory, and then coasted along the south of Italy for the remainder of the voyage.
[2427] The south-east.
[2428] The Acra Iapygia.
[2429] See notes to page 393 of this translation.
[2430] Cramer remarks that Veretum is still represented by the old church of S. Maria di Vereto.
[2431] That is, on land.
[2432] Scylax, Peripl. p. 5, speaks of the Leuterni as a really existing people.
[2433] Now Otranto. Lucan, book v. verse 374, speaking of the little river Idro which runs close to Otranto, says,