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BRUNDISIUM (Gr. Bpevrkwv, mod. Brindisi)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 680 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRUNDISIUM (Gr. Bpevrkwv, mod. See also:Brindisi) , an important See also:harbour See also:town of See also:Calabria (in the See also:ancient sense), See also:Italy, on the E.S.E. See also:coast. The name is said to mean " See also:stag's See also:head " in the Messapian See also:dialect, in allusion to the shape of the harbour. Tradition varies as to its founders; but we find it hostile to See also:Tarentum, and in friendly relations with See also:Thurii. With a fertile territory See also:round it, it became the most important See also:city of the Messapians, but it was See also:developed by the See also:Romans, into whose hands it only came of ter the See also:conquest of the Sallentini in 266 B.C. They founded a See also:colony there in 245 B.C., and the Via See also:Appia was perhaps extended through Tarentum as far as Brundisium at this See also:period. See also:Pacuvius was See also:born here about 220 B.C. After the Punic See also:Wars it became the See also:chief point of embarkation for See also:Greece and the See also:East, via Dyrrachium or Corcyra. In the Social See also:War it received See also:Roman citizenship, and was made a See also:free See also:port by See also:Sulla. It suffered, however, from a See also:siege conducted by See also:Caesar in 49 B.C. (See also:Bell.

Civ. i.) and was again attacked in 42 and 40 B.C. See also:

Virgil died here in 19 B.C. on his return from Greece. See also:Trajan constructed the Via Trajana, a more See also:direct route from Beneventum to Brundisium. The remains of ancient buildings are unimportant, though a considerable number of antiquities, especially See also:inscriptions, have been discovered here: one See also:column 62 ft. in height, with an ornate See also:capital, still stands, and near it is the See also:base of another, the column itself having been removed to See also:Lecce. They are said to have marked the termination of the Via Appia. See Ch. Hiilsen in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, iii. (1899), 902 ; Notizie degli Scavi, passim. Also BRINDISI. (T.

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