or METAPONTIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Lucania, on the Sinus Tarenti- nus, to the west of Tarentum; built by the Pylians who returned from Troy; and where Pythagoras is said to have taught in the time of Servius Tullius. Meta- pontini, the people; who pretended to show in a temple of Minerva, the tools with which Epeus built the wooden horse, (Justin.) Now a tower, called Torre di Mare, in the Basilicata of Naples.