. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. 0 men. Pythagorasestablished himself there about 540, and introduced great changes of apolitical and social character. War occurred between Croton andSybaris in 510, and terminated in the destruction of the latter battle of the Sagras, in which the Crotoniats were defeated withheavy loss by the Locrians and Rhegia^ns, took place probably after suffered severely in the wars waged by the Syracusan tyrants, beingcaptured by Dionysius in 389, and by Agathocles in 299. It becamesub
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. 0 men. Pythagorasestablished himself there about 540, and introduced great changes of apolitical and social character. War occurred between Croton andSybaris in 510, and terminated in the destruction of the latter battle of the Sagras, in which the Crotoniats were defeated withheavy loss by the Locrians and Rhegia^ns, took place probably after suffered severely in the wars waged by the Syracusan tyrants, beingcaptured by Dionysius in 389, and by Agathocles in 299. It becamesubject to Rome in 277, while it was under the power of Pyrrhus. Its ruinwas completed in the Second Punic War, when it was held for three yearsby Hannibal, and, in spite of a Roman colony sent there in 194, it sankinto insignificance. The healthiness of ^Jrotona and the fertility of thepastures about the ^Esarus are much praised. Scylacium or Scylletium,SiiUllace, stood near the inmost recess of the bay named after it. Thereare traditions as to its being a Greek city, but they are not 586 THE BEUTTII. Book IV.
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