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rivers Crati note and Sybaris. note Its founder was Is . . . . note the
Helice an. note
So great was the prosperity enjoyed by this city
anciently, that it held dominion over four neighbouring people and twenty-five towns; in the war with the Crotoniatae it
brought into the field 300,000 men, and occupied a circuit of
50 stadia on the Crati. But on account of the arrogance and
turbulence of its citizens, it was deprived of all its prosperity
by the Crotoniatae in 70 note days, who took the city, and turning
the waters of the river [Crati], overwhelmed it with an inundation. note Some time after, a few who had escaped came together
and inhabited the site of their former city, but in time they
were dispossessed by the Athenians note and other Greeks, who
came and settled amongst them, but they despised and subjugated them, and removed the city to a neighbouring place,
calling its name Thurii, from a fountain of that name. The
water of the river Sybaris has the peculiar property of making the horses which drink it shy, note for which reason they keep
their horses away from the river. The Crati turns the hair
of those who bathe in it yellow, and sometimes white, but has
