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BRUNDISIUM (Gr. Bpevrkwv, mod. Brindisi)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 680 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BRI-BUN
BRUNDISIUM (Gr. Bpevrkwv, mod. Brindisi) , an important harbour town of
Calabria
  (in the ancient sense),
Italy
 , on the E.S.E.
coast
 . The name is said to mean " stag's head " in the Messapian dialect, in allusion to the shape of the harbour. Tradition varies as to its founders; but we find it hostile to Tarentum, and in friendly relations with Thurii. With a fertile territory round it, it became the most important city of the Messapians, but it was developed by the Romans, into whose hands it only came of ter the conquest of the Sallentini in 266 B.C. They founded a colony there in 245 B.C., and the Via Appia was perhaps extended through Tarentum as far as Brundisium at this period. Pacuvius was born here about 220 B.C. After the Punic Wars it became the
chief
  point of embarkation for
Greece
  and the
East
 , via Dyrrachium or Corcyra. In the Social War it received Roman citizenship, and was made a free port by Sulla. It suffered, however, from a siege conducted by Caesar in 49 B.C. (
Bell
 . Civ. i.) and was again attacked in 42 and 40 B.C. Virgil died here in 19 B.C. on his return from
Greece
 . Trajan constructed the Via Trajana, a more direct route from Beneventum to Brundisium. The remains of ancient buildings are unimportant, though a considerable number of antiquities, especially
inscriptions
 , have been discovered here: one column 62 ft. in height, with an ornate
capital
 , still stands, and near it is the base of another, the column itself having been removed to 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. As.)


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