# Naturalis Historia 3.102-104

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 3.102 to 3.104. Latin.

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102] Brundisio conterminus Poediculorum ager. novem adulescentes totidemque virgines ab Illyris XII populos genuere. Poediculorum oppida Rudiae, Gnatia, Barium, amnes Iapyx a Daedali filio rege, a quo et Iapygia Acra, Pactius, Aufidus ex Hirpinis montibus Canusium praefluens. 103] hinc Apulia Dauniorum cognomine a duce Diomedis socero, in qua oppidum Salapia Hannibalis meretricio amore inclutum, Sipuntum, Urvia, amnis Cerbalus, Dauniorum finis, portus Aggasus, promunturium montis Gargani, a Sallentino sive Iapygio CCXXXIIII ambitu Gargani, portus Garnae, lacus Pantanus, flumen portuosum Fertor. Teanum Apulorum itemque Larinum, Cliternia, Tifernus amnis. inde regio Frentana. 104] ita Apulorum genera tria: Teani a duce e Grais; Lucani subacti a Calchante, quae nunc loca tenent Atinates; Dauniorum praeter supra dicta coloniae Luceria, Venusia, oppida Canusium, Arpi, aliquod Argos Hippium Diomede condente, mox Argyripa dictum. Diomedes ibi delevit gentes Monadorum Dardorumque et urbes duas, quae in proverbii ludicrum vertere, Apinam et Tricam.

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