or Metapontium, (anc. geog.), a town of Lucania, on the Sinus Tarentinus, to the west of Tarentum; built by the Pylians, who returned from Troy, (Mela). Where Pythagoras is said to have taught in the time of Servius Tullius,

(Metapontini, the people; who pretended to shew, in a temple of Minerva, the tools with which Epeus built the wooden horse, (Justin). Now a tower, called Torre di Mare, in the Basilica of Naples, (Baudrand).