Virgil follows the tradition that they went and settled in the south of Italy at the close of the Trojan war.
The 'Sallentinian plain' was the land bordering on the Tarentine Gulf, and 'Petelia' was on the east coast of Bruttium, and had been founded by Philoctetes, after he had been expelled from Thessaly.
LV.

_Scylla_ and _Charybdis_ are taken from Homer.

The former was a terrible sea-monster with six heads, and the latter a whirlpool.
Tradition fixed their abode as the Straits of Messina.

Scylla dwelt in a cave on the Italian side, Charybdis on the Sicilian.
LX.

Dodona, in Epirus, was one of the famous oracles in Greece.
LXVIII.