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And more wrong still, if possible, is that which is drawn from a saying of the mysterious Oenotrians that useful tribe who, wandering in search of homesteads across these regions and observing their beauty, are supposed to have remarked: Hic moremur here let us stay! It is the escutcheon of the town. Near at hand, too, lies the prosperous village Saracena, celebrated of old for its muscatel wines.

Instead of threading that dreary maze and attempting to classify those shreds of humanity, the Chones and Oenotrians, the Siculi and the Pelasgi, it will be more to the purpose to inquire how the real life of the people in ancient Italy expressed itself in their law, and their ideal life in religion; how they farmed and how they traded; and whence the several nations derived the art of writing and other elements of culture.

Instead of threading that dreary maze and attempting to classify those shreds of humanity, the Chones and Oenotrians, the Siculi and the Pelasgi, it will be more to the purpose to inquire how the real life of the people in ancient Italy expressed itself in their law, and their ideal life in religion; how they farmed and how they traded; and whence the several nations derived the art of writing and other elements of culture.

The Lucanians were of Sabine origin, and conquered the Oenotrians, who first possessed the country: they also subdued several Greek cities on the coast. The chief cities were Posido'nia or Pæstum, He'lia or Ve'lia, Sib'aris and Thu'rii. Brut'tium is the modern Cala'bria, and received that name when the ancient province was wrested from the empire.