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Contents of the Sixteenth Book of Diodorus
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1When Elpines was archon at Athens the Romans elected as
consuls Marcus Poplius Laenas and Gnaeus Maemilius Imperiosus,2 and the one hundred sixth celebration was held of
the Olympian games, at which Porus3 the
Malian won the stadion race. During their term of office, in Italy there gathered in Lucania a
multitude of men from every region, a mixture of every sort, but for the most part runaway
slaves. These at first led a marauding life and as they habituated themselves to out-of-door
life and making raids they gained practice and training in warfare; consequently, since they
regularly had the upper hand with the inhabitants in their battles, they reached a state of
considerably increased importance.
[2]
First they took by siege
the city Terina4 and plundered it completely; then, having taken
Hipponium, Thurii, and many other cities,5 they formed a common government and were called
Bruttians from the fact that most of them were slaves, for in the local dialect runaway slaves
were called "bruttians."6Such, then, was the origin7 of the people of the Bruttians in Italy.
1 356/5 B.C.
2 These names appear in Livy 7.12.1 as Marcus Popilius Laenas and Gnaeus Manlius.
3 Cp. chap. 2.1.
4 A city on the west coast of Bruttian peninsula probably founded by Croton.
5 Sybaris on the Trais is mentioned in Book 12.22.1.
6 Perhaps Oscan. Yet other legends have Brettos (Stephanus of Byzantium, Βρέττος), son of Hercules and Valentia, as eponymous hero, and still others Brettia (Justin 23.1.12), as eponymous heroine. But the term Brettios is older than the date of this passage (see Aristoph. fr. 629 Kock).
7 See Justin 23.1.3-14; Strabo 6.1.4.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, DION Greece.
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, HIPPONION later VIBO VALENTIA (until 1928 called Monteleone di Calabria) Italy.
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), BRUTTIA´NI
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), BRU´TTII
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), HIPPO´NIUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MAGNA GRAE´CIA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), TERINA
- Smith's Bio, Brutus
- Smith's Bio, Laenas
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