I.a town of Lucania, where Pythagoras lived and died, now Torre a Mare, Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 4; Liv. 1, 18, 8; Mela, 2, 4, 3; Plin. 3, 11, 15, § 97.—Hence, Mĕtăpontīnus , a, um, adj., Metapontine: “ager,” Liv. 24, 20.—In plur.: Mĕtă-pontīni , ōrum, m., the Metapontines, Liv. 22, 61.
Mĕtăpontum , i, n.,