[1663] A son of Lycaon.
[1664] Of Lacinium and Acra Iapygia. About seventy miles seems to be the real distance; certainly not, as Pliny says, 100.
[1665] The modern Taranto to Brindisi.
[1666] Probably situate at the further extremity of the bay on which Tarentum stood.
[1667] According to D’Anville and Mannert, the modern Oria. Messapia is the modern Mesagna.
[1668] The modern Santa Maria dell’ Alizza, according to D’Anville.
[1669] The modern Gallipoli, in the Terra di Otranto. The real distance from Tarentum is between fifty and sixty miles.
[1670] The “Iapygian Point,” the present Capo di Santa Maria di Leuca.
[1671] Its site is occupied by the little village of Vaste near Poggiordo, ten miles S.W. of Otranto. In the sixteenth century considerable remains of Basta were still to be seen.
[1672] The modern Otranto stands on its site. In the fourth century it became the usual place of passage from Italy to Greece, Apollonia, and Dyrrhachium. Few vestiges of the ancient city are now to be seen.