Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Sagitta, Salentīni

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Salentīni

or Sallentīni. A people in the southern part of Calabria, who dwelt around the promontory Iapygium, which is hence called Salentīnum or Salentīna. They laid claim to a Greek origin, and pretended to have come from Crete into Italy under the guidance of Idomeneus (Verg. Aen. iii. 400). They were subdued by the Romans at the conclusion of their war with Pyrrhus, and having revolted in the Second Punic War were again easily reduced to subjection (Livy, Epit. 15).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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