Condidit; et nomen tumulati traxit in urbem.”
Ovid. Metam. xv. 53.
[2186] Milo is said to have carried off the prize for wrestling from the 62nd Olympiad, B. C.532, and also to have commanded the 100,000 Crotoniatæ who engaged the hostile armies of Sybaris and destroyed their city, about B. C.509. Diod. Sic. xii. 9, &c.
[2187] Sybaris was said to have been founded by the people of Trœzene not long after the siege of Troy. Aristot. Politic. lib. v. cap. 3. Solin. viii. But these were subsequently joined by a more numerous colony of Achæans, about B. C.720. Euseb. Chron. ii.
[2188] ὁ Κρᾶθις. There was a stream of the same name in Achaia, from whence the Italian Crathis, now Crati, derived its name. The Crathis and Sybaris now join about 14 miles from the sea.
[2189] Now Cochile.
[2190] Koray objected to the old reading, ὁ Ἰσελικεὺς, and proposed instead Οἰς.... Ἑλικεὺς; Groskurd thought it better to translate it Ihr Erbauer war Is.... aus Helike; and Kramer has adopted this latter view, which we have followed.
[2191] Helice was mentioned, book i. chap. iii. § 18. Ovid, Metam. xv. 293, also speaks of this city,
“Si quæras Helicen et Buram Achaïdas urbes,
Invenies sub aquis....”