(anc. geog.) a very ancient a city, as to be supposed to take its name from the violent bursting of the coast of Italy from Sicily; thought to have been formerly conjoined, (Mela, Virgil). A city of the Brutii, a colony of Chalcidians from Euboea: a strong barrier opposed to Sicily, (Strabo); mentioned by Luke; named Julius, (Ptolemy), from a fresh supply of inhabitants sent thither by Augustus, after driving Sextus Pompeius out of Sicily, (Strabo); and thus was in part a colony, retaining still the right of a municipium, Inscription. The city is now called Reggio, in the Farther Calabria.