...m Rhegium is only sixty stadia, it is much less from Columna. Messene was founded by the Messenians of the Peloponnesus, who named it after themselves, changing its name; for formerly it was called Zancle , on account of the crookedness of the coast (anything crooked was called "zanclion"), having been founded formerly by the Naxians who lived near Catana. But the Mamertini, a tribe of the Campani, j...