APRUSTUM a town in the interior of Bruttium, mentioned by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 3.11.98), who tells us that it was the only inland city of the Bruttians ( mediterranei Bruttioruin Aprustani tantum). It is evidently the same place called in our texts of Ptolemy (Ptol. 3.1.75), Ἄβυστρον, for which we should probably read Ἄβρυστον : he associates it with Petelia, and it has been conjectured that its site is marked by the village of Argusto, near Chiaravalle, on a hill about 5 miles from the Gulf of Squillace. (Romanelli, vol. 1. p. 189.)
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