argyrippa

Updated: February 14, 2025

There is also Cannæ, the "plain of Diomed," near Daunian Apulia. Messapia was called also Iapygia, later Salentia, and then Calabria. Argyrippa, a Diomedian city, was renamed Arpi by the Apulians. Cp. Later he was arrayed against the Romans at Cannæ, when the Roman generals were Paulus and Terentius.

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Now Cannæ is a level district of Argyrippa, where Diomed founded the city Argyrippa, that is to say "Argos the Horse-City" in the tongue of the Greeks. It is also the boundary between the Calauri and Longibardi, where the great war burst upon them. Cp.

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