[553] For ‘Caulonis’ there appears from Serv. to have been a reading ‘Aulonis,’ which is still found under the form ‘Aulones’ in the MS. known as the first Rottendorphian. Strabo 6. p. 261 B says that the place was originally named Aulonia, afterwards Caulonia, the change being doubtless due, as Heyne suggests, to some dialectic peculiarity. Horace's “amicus Aulon” (2 Od. 6. 18), to which Serv. refers, is a different place. It is not easy to say whether ‘arces’ are rocks or towers. ‘Navifragum’ active, like “mare naufragum” Hor. 1 Od. 16. 10. The shore about Seylaceum is said not to be rocky, so that the epithet refers to the gales which blow about that part of Italy.
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