Quatuor hinc rapimur viginti et millia rhedis, I. SAT. 5. From the relative positions of Trivicum and Canusium, whither Horace was proceeding, and the distance he mentions, antiquaries are of opinion that this unpoetical station must have been near Asculum in Apulia k. The northern part of Samnium was traversed by a road which communicated with the Valerian, Latin, and Appian ways, and after crossing through part of Apulia, fell into the Via Aquilia in Lucania. There is reason for supposing this to have been the Via Numicia of which Horace says, Brundusium Numici melius via ducat, an Appi. I. EPIST. 18. For Cicero speaks of a Via Minucia, which must have agreed in direction with that which I am now describing; and early critics have remarked, that the true reading in this passage of Cicero was Numicia1. (ad Att. IX. Ep. 6.) In the Itinerary of Antoninus this route is described under the head "Iter a Mediolano per Picenum et "Campaniam ad Columnam." The following stations are laid down from Corfinium on the Valerian way to Venusia, situated on the Via Appia. k Romanelli, t. ii. p. 251. It appears from some inscriptions discovered near Ascoli, that the road here mentioned was repaired by Trajan. 1 Turneb. Advers. 1. i. c. 21. The Table describes the same road, but with this difference, that it carries it on to Beneventum, and then follows the Via Appia to Venusia. I may here observe that a branch of the Via Latina crossed into this route from Teanum Sidicinum, and thus afforded a more direct communication between that town and Beneventum than by Capua. The Itinerary of Antoninus thus details it: m The Itinerary gives XXVIII. n This, according to Romanelli, should be X. and the next number XV. t. ii. p. 723: o Holsten. Adnot. P. 266. P The Table marks VI. 9 Instead of XII. Holsten. Adnot. p. 270. Finally, a cross-road led from Beneventum into the country of the Picentini, where it fell in with the Via Aquilia at Picentia. The distances, according to the Table, are these: The only route which traversed the territory of the Frentani was a continuation of the Via Salaria, which followed the coast as far as Brundusium. According to Romanelli it was termed Via Frentana Apulas. But in the Itinerary of Antoninus we find it described under the head "Via Flaminia per Pice"num Brundusium." SECTION XII. APULIA. Division of this province into Daunia or Apulia properly so called, Peucetia and Iapygia, or Messapia-History and description of these several districts, with their subdivisions-Roman ways. WE are led to infer from Strabo's account of the eastern coast of Italy, that the name of Apulia was originally applied to a small tract of country situated immediately to the south of the Frentani, whose territory was described in the preceding section; (Strab. VI. 283.) but whatever may have been the narrow confines of the portion of country occupied by the Apuli, properly so called, we know that in the reign of Augustus the term Apulia was employed in a far more extended sense, including indeed the territories of several people much more celebrated in history than the obscure tribe above mentioned, but who sunk in proportion as this common name was brought into general use. It may be remarked indeed as a singular circumstance, that whereas, under the Romans, all former appellations peculiar to the different people who inhabited this part of the peninsula were lost in that of Apulia, the Greeks, to whom this name was unknown, should have given the same extension to that of Iapygia, with which the Romans, on the other |