The Geography of Strabo, Vol. III (Loeb)

Philoctetes also founded old Crimissa near the same regions. Apollodorus, in his work on the Catalogue of Ships, original: "περὶ Νεῶν" mentions Philoctetes and says that some claim he arrived at the territory of Croton, established the promontory of Crimissa, and founded the city of Chone in the interior above it—from which the Chones of that district took their name. He also says that some of his companions, sent by him to Sicily near Eryx, fortified Aegesta with Aegestes the Trojan. Grumentum, Vertinae, Calasarna, and other small settlements also exist in the interior as far as Venusia, a notable city. I believe this city and those that follow as one goes toward Campania are Samnite cities. Beyond the Thurians lies the country called the Taurian land. The Lucanians are Samnite by race, but they mastered the Poseidoniatae and their allies in war, taking possession of their cities. In other times, they were governed by a democracy, but during wars, they would elect a king from those who held magisterial offices. But now, they are Romans.

4. The seaboard that comes next after Lucania, as far as the Sicilian Strait—a distance of thirteen hundred and fifty stadia A stadium is a unit of length, approximately 600 feet or 185 meters.—is occupied by the Brettii. Antiochus, in his treatise On Italy, says that this territory (which he describes) was once called Italy, although in earlier times it was called Oenotria. He defines its boundaries, on the Tyrrhenian Sea...