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[2] These crossed over into Italy, and coming upon a coastal town in Bruttium, sacked it. The Bruttians, incensed, immediately marched against them with a large army, stormed the place, and shot them all down with javelins.1 Those who had abandoned Timoleon were rewarded by such misfortune for their own wickedness.

1 Plut. Timoleon 30.1-2. Another group of the impious mercenaries is mentioned also in 30.4.

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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