River
Fl. Cerbalus
Cervaro
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The Cerbalus, now the Cervaro in Apulia, runs across the map without any name; it is recognised by its mouth on the Adriatic between Sipontum, drawn as a pair of towers, and Anxanum. The map has it rising in the Apennines and flowing almost straight to the sea, crossing three roads on the way, the last of them the coast road. The Roman writer Pliny called it the border of the Daunians, and the Greek geographer Strabo probably meant it when he described a navigable river carrying grain through marshland to the sea, although stretches of the Cervaro now run dry for part of the year.