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two places, and is distant from each the number of miles last given. note Aegimurus also and other little islands lie off Sicily and Africa. So much for the islands.
HAVING previously passed over the regions of ancient Italy as far as Metapontium, we must now proceed to describe the rest. After it Iapygia note comes next in order; the Greeks call it Messapia, but the inhabitants, dividing it into cantons, call one the Salentini, note that in the neighbourhood of the Cape note Iapygia, and another the Calabri; note above these towards the north lie the Peucetii, note and those who are called Daunii note in the Greek language, but the inhabitants call
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