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[6] Having found not far from Sybaris a spring called Thuria, which had a bronze pipe which the natives of the region called medimnos,1 and believing this to be the place which the god had pointed out, they threw a wall about it, and founding a city there they named it Thurium after the spring.

1 Medimnos among the Greeks was a measure of grain.

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