"Besides these, there are several other villages where the blood is Albanian, the language Sicilian.
Is the intercourse between the two sides of the Adriatic, which t...hese Albanian colonies imply, recent or old ? Both. Migrations from the opposite coast— migrations other than Greek—modified even the early populations of Italy. The Chaonian name was common to both sides of the Gulf. Again, the Galabri, writes Strabo, are a "people of the Dardaniatae, in whose land is an ancient city." Word for word, Galabri is Calabri.
Without being identical, the name of the Italian lapyges (which was to all intents and purposes another name for Calabri) is closely akin to lapodes; so that, in Italy, we have Calabri called also lapyges, and, in Illyria, lapodes near a population called Galabri.
Again, the Sallentines were partly Cretans, associated with Locrians and lllyrians.
Again, the district wherein the legends concerning Diomed prevailed is also the district of the Daunii, whom Festus connects with Illyria.
I conclude the notice of Italy with the following table, which gives the foreign elements of the countries south of the Alps, along with the islands of Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Malta; all of which are, more or less, Italian, though it is doubtful whether they can all be properly called Italy.
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