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in quest of brass
To Temesa. note
Odyssey i. 184.
and certain copper-mines are pointed out near to the place,
which are now exhausted. Contiguous to it is Terina, note which
Hannibal destroyed, when he found he could no longer retain
it; at the time when he took refuge in the country of the
Bruttii. note Next in order comes Cosentia, note the metropolis of the
Bruttii. A little above it is Pandosia, which is strongly fortified, before which Alexander the Molossian king was overthrown. This prince was led astray by the oracle of Dodona,
which commanded him to avoid Acheron and Pandosia; note for
places with names like these being pointed out in Thesprotia,
caused him to lose his life note here. The position has three
summits, and the river Acheron flows by it. He was also
mistaken in another oracle,
O Pandosia, thou three-topp'd hill,
Hereafter many people thou shalt kill;
for he thought that it foreshowed the destruction of his enemies, and not of his own people. They say that Pandosia note
