[551] Hinc of time, not of place, as the bay of Tarentum could not be seen from the Castrum Minervae. Henry. ‘Herculei:’ the ordinary legend attributed the founding of Tarentum to Taras, son of Poseidon. Heyne, in an Excursus, collects the various notices which connect the name of Hercules with Tarentum, doubting however whether they do not belong to a later time, after Tarentum had been colonized from Lacedaemon, so that he supposes Virg.'s actual authority to be some story, now lost, of the foundation of Tarentum by Hercules. He remarks that the southern coast of Italy was full of memorials of Hercules. Virg.'s ‘si vera est fama’ may be meant to point to the fact that there were other and opposing legends.
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