Hekatæus (c. 39, ed. Klausen) calls Cosa,—Κόσσα, πόλις Οἰνωτρῶν ἐν μεσογαίᾳ. Cosa is considered to be identical, seemingly on good grounds, with the modern Cassano (Cæsar, Bell. Civ. iii, 22): assuming this to be correct, there must have been an Œnotrian dependent town within eight miles of the ancient city of Sybaris.
[755] Diodor xii, 9.
[756] Athenæus, xii, p. 519.
[757] Herodot. vi, 21. Respecting the great abundance of ship-timber in the territory of the Italiots (Italian Greeks), see Thucyd. vi, 90; vii, 25.
The pitch from the pine forests in the Sila was also abundant and celebrated (Strabo, vi, p. 261).
[758] Herodot. iii, 138.
[759] Athenæus, xii, p. 519.
[760] Festus, v. bilingues Brutates.
[761] Strabo, vi, p. 262.
[762] Jamblichus, Vit. Pythagor. c. 9, p. 33; c. 35, p. 210.