Longe sonantem natus ad Aufidum,
Non ante vulgatas per artes
Verba loquor socianda chordis.”
[2466] M. Gossellin considers this rather too much, and supposes 315 stadia would be nearer the truth.
[2467] Ruins now called Salpi.
[2468] Now Lucera.
[2469] See book v. c. 1, § 9, p. 320. Ptolemy makes these five, which is the number of the isles of Tremiti at present, if we include in the group three barren rocks, which scarce deserve the name of islands. One was called Diomedea by Pliny, and Tremitus by Tacitus, who states that Augustus appointed it as the prison of his grand-daughter Julia; the second was called Teutria. The largest is at present called Isola San Domino, the other Isola San Nicolo.
[2470] Book v. c. i. § 9, p. 320.
[2471] Siponto, a place in ruins near Manfredonia.
[2472] Sestini describes a gold coin belonging to this city, on which the emblem of a cuttle fish in Greek, σηπία, is apparent. The legend is Σιπο. Sestini descrizione d’ una Med. p. 16.