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Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.), BOOK VI., CHAPTER I. (search)
split it completely, but was only able to force it enough to let the wedges fall out, when the gaping log presently closed on him, and he, being taken as in a snare, was devoured by wild beasts. Beyond this, at the distance of 200 stadia, is situated Sybaris,Sybaris was said to have been founded by the people of Trœzene not long after the siege of Troy. Aristot. Politic. lib. v. cap. 3. Solin. viii. But those were subsequently joined by a more numerous colony of Achmæans, about B. C. 720. Euseb. Chron. ii. a colony settled by the Achœans, between the two rivers Cratio( Ko|a=qis. There was a stream of the same name in Achaia, from whence the Italian Crathis, now Crati, derived its name. The Crathis and Sybaris now join about 14 miles from the sea. and Sybaris.Now Cochile. Its founder was Is . . . .Koray objected to the old reading, o\ )Iseliken\s, and proposed instead Oi)s. . . . (Elikeu\s; Groskurd thought it better to translate it Ihr Erbauer war Is .....aus He li