It is evidently the same promontory which is called by Thucydides , and was the last point in Italy where Demosthenes and Eurymedon touched with the Athenian armament before they crossed over to Sicily. It was here also that Cicero touched on his voyage from Sicily, when, after the death of Julius Caesar, 44 BCE, he was preparing to repair into Greece, and where he was visited by some friends from Rhegium, who brought news from Rome that induced him to alter his plans. In the former passage he terms it promontorium agri Rhegini: the Leucopetra Tarentinorum mentioned by him, if it be not a false reading, must refer to quite a different place, probably the headland of Leuca, more commonly called the Iapygian promontory.
It is evidently the same promontory that Thucydides referred to, which was the last point in Italy where Demosthenes and Eurymedon touched with the Athenian armament before crossing over to Sicily. It was here also that Cicero touched on his voyage from Sicily after Julius Caesar's death in 44 BCE, when he planned to enter Greece and was visited by friends from Rhegium who brought news from Rome prompting him to change his plans. In the first passage, Thucydides called it promontorium agri Rhegini; if Leucopetra Tarentinorum is not a false reading, it likely refers to a different location, possibly the headland of Leuca, commonly known as the Iapygian promontory.