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been found salutary for the cure of many disorders. Thurii, after having flourished for a long time, became a continual prey to the aggressions of the Leucani, ^note and afterwards the Tarentini troubling them, they appealed to the Romans for succour, who, in course of time, sent a colony ^note when it was nearly deserted, and changed the name of the city to Copiae. ^note 14

After Thurii is Lagaria, ^note a garrison fort; it was originally settled by Epeius ^note and the Phocenses; hence is derived the Lagaritan wine, sweet and delicate, and much recommended by the physicians, as is likewise the Thurian wine, which is reckoned among the best. Then comes the city of Heraclea, ^note a little way from the sea, and two navigable rivers, the Agri ^note and the Sinno, ^note on which was the city Siris, founded by a Trojan colony, but in course of time, when Heraclea was peopled with the citizens of Siris by the Tarentini, it became the harbour of Heraclea. Its distance from Heraclea was 24 stadia, and from Thurii about 330. ^note They point out the statue of the Trojan Minerva, which is erected there, as a proof of its colonization by the Trojans. They also relate as a miracle how the statue closed its eyes when the suppliants, who had fled for sanctuary to her shrine, were dragged away by the Ionians after they had taken the city; ^note they say that these Ionians came to settle here, when they fled from the yoke of the Lydians, and took the town of the Trojans ^note by force, calling its name Polieum. They show, too, at the present time