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Livy 23.30.6: Isdem ferme diebus et Bruttiorum exercitus Crotonem, Graecam urbem,
circumsedit, opulentam quondam armis virisque, tum iam adeo multis magnisque cladibus
adflictam ut omnis aetatis minus duo milia civium superessent.
About the same time an army of the Bruttians also besieged Croton, a Greek city
formerly rich in arms and men, but even so crushed by so many disasters that, including all
ages, less than two thousand citizens remained. (F. Gardner Moore).
Livy 24.1.9: L. Atilio praefecto praesidii quique cum eo milites Romani erant clam in
portum deductis atque impositis in navis, ut Regium deveherentur, Hamilcarem
Poenosque... in urbem acceperunt.
After Lucius Atilius, commander of the garrison, and the Roman soldiers who were
with him had been secretly led down to the harbor and put on ships to be carried to
Rhegium, they admitted Hamilcar and the Carthaginians into the city. (F. Gardner Moore).
Livy, 24.2.1-3: Sic a freto Poeni reducti frementibus Bruttiis quod Regium ac Locros, quas
urbes direpturos se destinaverant, intactas reliquissent. Itaque per se ipsi conscriptis
armatisque iuventutis suae quindecim milibus ad Crotonem oppugnandum pergunt ire,
Graecam et ipsam urbem et maritimam, plurimum accessurum opibus, si in ora maris
urbem ac portum moenibus validam tenuissent, credentes.
Thus the Carthaginians were withdrawn from the Straits, though the Bruttians were
indignant because they had left Rhegium and Locri untouched, the cities that they had
counted upon plundering. And so without aid they enlisted and armed 15,000 of their
young men and set out to besiege Croton, another Greek city and on the sea, believing that
it would be a great addition to their resources if they should hold a fortified city and
harbour on the sea-coast. (F. Gardner Moore).
Livy, 24.3.1-5: Urbs Croto murum in circuitu patentem duodecim milia passuum habuit
ante Pyrrhi in Italiam adventum. Post vastitatem eo bello factam vix pars dimidia
habitabatur; flumen, quod medio oppido fluxerat, extra frequentia tectis loca
praeterfluebat, et arx procul eis erat quae habitabantur. Sex milia aberat ab urbe nobili
templum ipsa urbe nobilius Laciniae Iunonis, sanctum omnibus circa populis. Lucus ibi
frequenti silva et proceris abietis arboribus saeptus laeta in medio pascua habuit, ubi omis
generis sacrum deae pecus pascebatur sine ullo pastore.
The city of Croton had a wall with a circuit of twelve miles before the coming of
Pyrrhus to Italy. Since the desolation caused by that war scarcely half of the city was
inhabited. The river which had flowed through the middle of the city now flowed past,
outside the quarters which had numerous houses, and the citadel was far from the inhabited
portions. Six miles from the famous city was a temple more famous than the city itself, that
of Lacinian Juno, revered by all the surrounding people. There a sacred grove, which was
enclosed by dense woods and tall fir-trees, had in its centre luxuriant pastures, where cattle
of all kind, being sacred to the goddess, used to pasture without any shepherd. (F. Gardner
Moore).
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