Bradanus
Bradanus a river of Lucania, the name of which is found only in the Itinerary of Antoninus (p. 104), but which is undoubtedly the same still called the Bradano, a considerable river, which rises in the mountains near Venusia, and flows into the gulf of Tarentum, immediately to the N. of Metapontum. It appears to have formed in ancient times the boundary between Lucania and Apulia or Calabria, as it still does between the provinces of Basilicata and Terra d'Otranto. Appian (App. BC 5.93) speaks of a river of the same name (πόταμος ἐπώνυμος), near Metapontum, which can hardly be any other than the Bradano: hence it would appear that near its mouth it was known by the name of that city, although in the upper part of its course it was termed the Bradanus.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.