We know today, from excavations carried out at the Garden of Renda, in the neighborhood of S. Eufemia Vetere, that the remains of the ancient city discovered there are those of the mythical Terina (the “Vetus Civitas” mentioned by Robert Guiscard in the founding charter of the Abbey of S. Eufemia in 1062), and it confirms what the illustrious linguist, Professor Giovanni Alessio of the University of Naples maintained in a study published in the Almanacco Calabrese in 1958, titled La Sirena Ligea e l’antica Terina (The Siren Ligea and Ancient Terina), identifying the Zinnavo (from the Greek Ocinaro) as the river which washed the sepulcher of Ligea.

Terina: Archaelogical Excavations

Upon clearing the field of false premises, we may calmly affirm that the term Aque Ange (Ange Waters) recalls linguistically the term Angitola. Significant in this respect are the engravings of 1624 called Brutii Agri Descriptio signed by Nicolaus Geilkerck, dealing with Cluverius’ Ancient Italy, and of 1659 called Campania, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania, Brutii, Cum Conterminis Regionibus also dealing with Cluverius’s Ancient Italy, and also of 1699 called Magna Graecia idest Apulia, Messapia, Lucania et Brutii, signed by F. Bertin from Tabulae geographicae, quibus universa geographia vetus continentur, from the Diocesan Seminary of Padua, in which certain small lakes with the caption Aquae Angitae appear between the rivers Lamato and Angitola .

By interpolating the data it seems that the distance Ad fl. Sabatum – Ad Turres of the Itinerario Antonino is about 18 miles, while the distance Temsa – Aque Ange in the Tabula Peutingeriana measures in all 25 miles. The conclusion is that the establishment with thermal waters, known as Aque Ange, must be placed about five miles after Ad Turres, precisely at the place known as Ellade di Acconia where one finds the ruins of Roman baths.