. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . TinHk cities, and towards the middle of the fifthcentury, Pandosia. with the neighbouring towns, fell into their power.\rasters of the western shores, they turned towards those of the Gulf of Tarentum, and jilaeedthe Greeks, alnnidy mcniaced onthe south by the tyrants ofSyracuse, between two 4;)() , they wei-e al-ready contending against Thurii,and such was tli(>ir progressin the space of thirty-six years, notwithstanding their smallnumber, whicli di<l not exceed .34
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . TinHk cities, and towards the middle of the fifthcentury, Pandosia. with the neighbouring towns, fell into their power.\rasters of the western shores, they turned towards those of the Gulf of Tarentum, and jilaeedthe Greeks, alnnidy mcniaced onthe south by the tyrants ofSyracuse, between two 4;)() , they wei-e al-ready contending against Thurii,and such was tli(>ir progressin the space of thirty-six years, notwithstanding their smallnumber, whicli di<l not exceed .34,000 combatants, that a greatdefensive league, the first that the Greeks of this coast had made,was foiiiicd again-t them and Diouysius of Syracuse. The penaltyof death was pronounced against the chief of the city whose troojjsshould not have asscMubled at the fiist news of the apin-oach of thebarbarians (.V.)i (.) These moasures were fruitless : three yearsafterAvards. all tiic youtli of Thurii. desirous ol recajituring the cityof I/ius, were (hstroved in a l)attle. which gave almost the whole. Coin of Tliiiru. Heliiiptel licai] of Mavs : reverse Bellona. Head of Minerva ami the IjiiU h:> frequently found on llie coins of s(]ullurn Italy. iJiiMlorus, xiv. 10]-I0l. Ibid, !J1. OSCAXS AND SABELLIANS. CVil of Calabria iiitn the lunids of the Lucaniaus. Dionvsius theToimgcr, frigliteued in his turn, in spite of a treaty couehuhHl withtliem in 3l3(l ,- traced from the gulf of Scylaciuni to that ofHipponiuni a line of defence, intended to protect his Italian against them. This period marked the greatest exteiLsion of the they did nothing but give way, enfeebled as they wereby the lack of harmony between their different cantons, each ofwhich had its peculiar laws and its chief {^meihlix or jira/uciis).Towards o-50 , the Bruttians make their ai)pearance, whose revoltwas countenanced by Dionjsius, and little by little the frontier ofLnca
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