[1303] A district famous for its wines, extending from the Massican Hills to the north bank of the Volturnus.
[1304] According to Hardouin, the town of Calenum was on the site of the present Calvi near Capua.
[1305] Now called Monte Marsico, and as famous for its wine (called Muscatella) as it was in the Roman times.
[1306] Now Monte Barbaro. The wines of most of these places will be found fully described by Pliny in B. xiv.
[1307] More fully mentioned, B. xviii. c. 29, where the ‘alicæ’ or fermenty made from the spelt grown here is again referred to.
[1308] Of Baiæ, Puteoli, and Stabiæ, for instance.
[1309] The modern Saove.
[1310] Now called the Volturno, with a small place on its banks called Castel Volturno.
[1311] The present village of Torre di Patria is supposed to occupy its site.
[1312] Strabo describes Cumæ as a joint colony of the Chalcidians of Eubœa and the Cymæans of Æolis. Its sea-shore was covered with villas of the Roman aristocracy, and here Sylla spent the last years of his life. Its site is now utterly desolate and its existing remains inconsiderable.