Brundusium

, now Brundisi , a city of Calabria, on the Adriatic sea where the Appian road was terminated. It was founded by Diomedes after the Trojan war, or, according to Strabo, by These us, with a Cretan colony. The Romans generally embarked at Brundusium for Greece. It is famous for the birth of the poet Pacuvius and the death of Virgil, and likewise for its harbour, which is capacious and sheltered by the land, and by a small island at the entrance, against the fury of the winds and waves. Little remains of the ancient city, and even its harbour has now been choked up by the negligence of the inhabitants. Justin , bk. 3 , ch. 4 ; bk. 12 , ch. 2 .— Strabo , bk. 5 .— Cæsar , Civil War , bk. 1 , ch. 24 .— Cicero , Letters to Atticus , bk. 4 , ltr. 1 .