Crotălus, a navigable river of Italy. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 10.
Croton, a man killed by Hercules, by whom he was afterwards greatly honoured. Diodorus, bk. 4.
Crŏtōna, a town of Italy, still known by the same name, in the bay of Tarentum, founded 759 years before the Augustan age, by a colony from Achaia. The inhabitants were excellent warriors, and great wrestlers. Democedes, Alcmæon, Milo, &c., were natives of this place. It was surrounded with a wall 12 miles in circumference, before the arrival of Pyrrhus in Italy. Crotona struggled in vain against the attacks of Dionysius of Sicily, who took it. It suffered likewise in the wars of Pyrrhus and Annibal, but it received ample glory, in being the place where Pythagoras established his school. Herodotus, bk. 8, ch. 47.—Strabo, bk. 6.—Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 96.—Livy, bk. 1, ch. 18; bk. 24, ch. 3.—Justin, bk. 20, ch. 2.
Crotoniatæ, the inhabitants of Crotona. Cicero, de Inventione, bk. 2, ch. 1.
Crotoniatis, a part of Italy, of which Crotona is the capital. Thucydides, bk. 7, ch. 35.
Crotopiădes, a patronymic of Linus, as grandson of Crotopus.
Crotōpias, the patronymic of Linus grandson of Crotopus. Ovid, Ibis, li. 480.
Crotōpus, a king of Argos, son of Agenor, and father to Psamathe the mother of Linus by Apollo. Ovid, Ibis, li. 480.
Crotus, a son of Eumene the nurse of the Muses. He devoted his life to the labours of the chase, and after death Jupiter placed him among the constellations, under the name of Sagittarius. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 29.
Crunos, a town of Peloponnesus. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 2.