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

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Canusium

（Κανύσιον). The modern Canosa. An important town in Apulia, on the Aufidus, founded, according to tradition, by Diomedes. It was, at all events, a Greek colony, and both Greek and Oscan were spoken there in the time of Horace. It was celebrated for its mules and its woollen manufactures, but had only a deficient supply of water. Many beautiful Greek vases have been discovered here, as well as coins and other remains. Livy states that the fugitives of the Roman army after the defeat at Cannae (q.v.) were generously received here, and treated with much kindness by Busa, a wealthy lady of the city. See Livy, xxii. 52.