or METAFONTIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Lucania, on the Sinus Tarentinus, to the west of Tarentum; built by the Pyllans who returned from Troy; and where Pythagoras is said to have taught in the time of Servius Tullius. Metapontini; the people; who pretended to show in a temple of Minerva, the tools with which Epeus built the wooden horse, (Jutin). Now a tower, called Torre di Mare, in the Basilica of Naples.