Crŏtōna

, a town of Italy, still known by the same name, in the bay of Tarentum, founded 759 years before the August an age, by a colony from Achaia. The inhabitants were excellent warriors, and great wrestlers. Demo cedes, Alcmæon, Milo, . , were natives of this place. It was surrounded with a wall 12 miles in circumference, before the arrival of Pyrrhus in Italy. Croton a struggled in vain against the attacks of Dionysius of Sicily, who took it. It suffered likewise in the wars of Pyrrhus and Annibal, but it received ample glory, in being the place where Pythagoras established his school. Hero dot us , bk. 8 , ch. 47 .— Strabo , bk. 6 .— Pliny , bk. 2 , ch. 96 .— Livy , bk. 1 , ch. 18 ; bk. 24 , ch. 3 .— Justin , bk. 20 , ch. 2 .