Velia

, a maritime town of Lucania, founded by a colony of Phoceans, about 600 years after the coming of Æneas into Italy. The port in its neighbourhood was called Velinus port us . Strabo , bk. 6 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 4 .— Cicero , Philippics , bk. 10 , ch. 4 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , li. 366 .――An eminence near the Roman forum, where Poplicola built himself a house. Livy , bk. 2 , ch. 6 .— Cicero , bk. 7 , Letters to Atticus , ltr. 15 .