# Naturalis Historia 3.99

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 3. Latin.

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99] Conectitur secunda regio amplexa Hirpinos, Calabriam, Apuliam, Sallentinos,CCL sinu qui Tarentinus appellatur ab oppido Laconum — in recessu hoc intimo situm, contributa eo maritima colonia, quae ibi fuerat, abest CXXXVI a Lacinio promunturio —, adversam ei Calabriam in paeninsulam emittens. Graeci Messapiam a duce appellavere et ante Peucetiam a Peucetio Oenotri fratre in Sallentino agro. inter promunturia C intersunt. latitudo paeninsulae a Tarento Brundisium terreno itinere XXXXV patet multoque brevius a portu Sasine.

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