Note 2433 — Chapter III
W. (William) Falconer translation
Now Otranto. Lucan, book v. verse 374, speaking of the little river Idro which runs close to Otranto, says,
Et cunctas revocare rates, quas avius Hydrûs, Antiquusque Taras, secretaque litora Leucæ. Quas recipit Salapina palus, et subdita Sipus Montibus.
And Cicero, writing of the town to Tyro, book xvi. epistle 9, says of his voyage from Cassiope, Inde Austro lenissimo, cœlo sereno, nocte illa et die postero in Italiam ad Hydruntem ludibundi pervenimus. This place was called Hydruntum by Pliny and other authors.