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APULIA

Volume 1 · 90 words · 1778 Edition

now Puglia, a territory of Italy, bordering on the Adriatic, and extending from the river Frento to Tarentum in length, and from the Adriatic to the Lucani in breadth. Apuli the people, (Homer), divided into the Apulia Daunia, now called Puglia Piana, or the Capitanata; and into the Apulia Peucetia, now Terra di Barri, (Pliny, Ptolemy). Apulia abounded in sheep, which yielded the finest wool, (Martial). It is now the east side of the kingdom of Naples.

APYCNIS suoxi, in music, sounds distant one or more octaves, and yet concord.