[2473] Lycophron calls this stream by the name of Althænus.
[2474] Groskurd is of opinion that some words to the following effect have been accidentally lost from this place, viz. “The coast of Daunia forms an extensive bay about these parts.”
[2475] Now Punta di Viesti. Strabo seems to have considered the whole of the extensive neck of land lying between the bay of Rodi and that of Manfredonia, as the Garganum Promontorium. Lucan, v. 380, thus describes its prominence,
Apulus Hadriacas exit Garganus in undas.
[2476] About 37 miles towards the east.
[2477] Rodi.
[2478] See book v. c. i. § 9, p. 320.
[2479] Brindisi.
[2480] M. Gossellin gives a long note to show that the chorographer and Artemidorus were both correct in the distances they gave, but asserts that Strabo was mistaken as to the length of the stadium used by Artemidorus, and consequently thought he saw a discrepancy between their accounts.
[2481] The ancient Æsis.