Horace, indeed, displays a tender piety for that borderland of Apulia, where, in the glades of Mount vultur as a child, he drank inspiration from the witchery of haunted groves.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Thus at winter-tide By frequent fires th' Apulian herdsman seeks To render to the fields their verdant growth; Till blaze Garganus' uplands and the meads Of vultur, and the pasture of the herds By warm Matinum.
"Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars"
Lucan