[672] Niebuhr, Römisch. Geschicht. vol. i. p. 76, 2d edit.
[673] The history of Aristodêmus Malakus is given at some length by Dionysius of Halikarnassus (viii, 3-10).
[674] Livy, ii, 21.
[675] Velleius Patercul. i, 5.
[676] Compare Strabo, v, p. 250; vi. p. 264. “Cumanos Osca mutavit vicinia,” says Velleius, l. c.
[677] Diodor. xi, 51; Pindar, Pyth. i, 71.
[678] Thucyd. vi, 3; Strabo, vi, p. 267.
[679] The admixture of Naxian colonists may be admitted, as well upon the presumption arising from the name, as from the statement of Hellanikus, ap. Stephan. Byz. v. Χαλκίς.
Ephorus put together into one the Chalkidian and the Megarian migrations, which Thucydidês represents as distinct (Ephorus ap. Strabo, vi, p. 267).
[680] Thucyd. vi, 3; Diodor. xiv, 59-88.