It appears that the Syracusan historian Antiochus made no mention
either of Lucanians or of Bruttians, though he enumerated the
inhabitants of the exact line of territory afterwards occupied
by these two nations. After repeating the statement of Antiochus
that this territory was occupied by Italians, Œnotrians, and
Chonians, Strabo proceeds to say—Οὗτος μὲν οὖν ἁπλουστέρως εἴρηκε
καὶ ἀρχαϊκῶς, οὐδὲν διορίσας περὶ τῶν Λευκανῶν καὶ τῶν Βρεττίων.
The German translator Grosskurd understands these words as
meaning, that Antiochus “did not distinguish the Lucanians from
the Bruttians.” But if we read the paragraph through, it will
appear, I think, that Strabo means to say, that Antiochus had
stated nothing positive respecting either Lucanians or Bruttians.
Niebuhr (p. 96 _ut suprà_) affirms that Antiochus represented the
Lucanians as having extended themselves as far as Läus; which I
cannot find.
The date of Antiochus seems not precisely ascertainable. His work
on Sicilian history was carried down from early times to 424 B.
C. (Diodor. xii. 71). His silence respecting the Lucanians goes
to confirm the belief that the date of their conquest of the
territory called Lucania was considerably later than that year.
Polyænus (ii. 10. 2-4) mentions war as carried on by the
inhabitants of Thurii, under Kleandridas the father of Gylippus,
against the Lucanians. From the age and circumstances of
Kleandridas, this can hardly be later than 420 B. C.
[20] Strabo, vi. p. 256. The Periplus of Skylax (s. 12, 13)
recognizes Lucania as extending down to Rhegium. The date to
which this Periplus refers appears to be about 370-360 B. C.:
see an instructive article among Niebuhr’s Kleine Schriften, p.
105-130. Skylax does not mention the Bruttians (Klausen, Hekatæus
and Skylax, p. 274. Berlin, 1831).
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