Croton

or Croton a . One of the most celebrated of the Greek colonies in Southern Italy, founded about 710 B.C. About 510 a Croton i at army of 100,000 men, under Milo, defeated a greatly superior force of Sybarites on the banks of the Tracis, took the city of Sybaris, and utterly destroyed it. (See Sybaris .) In the second Punic war the Bruttians, with the a istance of the Cart hag in i an general Hanno, succeeded in making themselves masters of the city of Croton a, with the exception of the citadel, which held out until induced to surrender on terms. The ravages of this war completed the decay of the city, and it sunk into the condition of an obscure provincial town.