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of the number of citizens who fell in the battle. After the Sagras is Caulonia, which was at first called Aulonia, from the αὐλὼν, or valley, in which it was situated; but it is deserted, for its former possessors were driven out by the barbarians, ^note and have taken refuge in Sicily, and there founded [another] Caulonia. ^note After this is Scylletium, ^note a colony of the Athenians, who set out under Menestheus; ^note it is now called Scylacium. ^note Dionysius [the elder] allotted a portion of it to the Locri, whilst it was in the possession of the Crotoniatae. ^note The Scylleticus Sinus received its name from this city. It together with the Hipponiates Sinus forms the isthmus which we have mentioned above. ^note Dionysius ^note undertook to build a wall across the isthmus, at the time he was carrying on war against the Leucani, assigning as a pretext that it would afford security to the inhabitants of the peninsula from the inroads of the barbarians dwelling beyond it; but in truth his intention was to cut off the communication of the Greeks with each other, and to have the greater power over those who dwelt within the peninsula, but those who dwelt without ^note assembled and prevented the undertaking.

11 After Scylletium is the region of Crotona, and the