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Livy 29.7.7: Classis Romana a Messana Locros aliquot horis die superante accessit;
expositi omnes e navibus et ante occasum solis urbem ingressi sunt.
The Roman fleet sailing from Messana reached Locri while several hours of
daylight remained. All were landed from the ships and before sunset they entered the city.
(F. Gardner Moore).
Livy 29.8.9-11: am avaritia ne sacrorum quidem spoliatione abstinuit; nec alia modo
templa violate, sed Proserpinae etiam intacti omni aetate thensauri, praeterquam quod a
Pyrrho, qui cum magno piaculo sacrilegii sui manibus rettulit, spoliati dicebantur. Ergo
sicut ante regiae naves laceratae naufragiis nihil in terram integri praeter sacram
pecuniam deae quam asportabant extulerant...
It goes without saying that their avarice (of the Romans who controlled Locri
Epizephyri) did not refrain from despoiling even sacred things. And not only were other
temples desecrated, but also the treasure-chambers of Proserpina, untouched in every age
except that they were said to have been despoiled by Pyrrhus, who met with a signal
punishment and restored the plunder gained by his sacrilege. Consequently, just as
formerly the king’s ships, battered and wrecked, had landed nothing intact but the goddess’
sacred money which they were trying to carry away… (F. Gardner Moore).
Livy 29.9.8: His Messanam nuntiatis Scipio post paucos dies Locros hexeri advectus cum
causam Plemini et tribunorum audisset.
These acts being reported to Messana, Scipio a few days later sailed to Locri on a
six-oared ship to hear the case of Pleminius and the tribunes. (F. Gardner Moore).
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Livy 30.20.5: Itaque inutili militum turba praesidii specie in oppida Bruttii agri quae
pauca metu magis quam fide continebantur dismissa, quod roboris in exercitu erat in
Africam transvexit, multis Italici generis, quia in Africam secuturos abnuentes
concesserant in Iunonis Laciniae delubrum inviolatum ad eam diem, in templo ipso foede
interfectis.
After distributing the mass of useless troops, nominally as garrisons, among the
few Bruttian towns that were being held rather by fear than by loyalty, he transported the
flower of his army to Africa. Many men of Italic race refusing to follow him to Africa had
retired to the shrine of Juno Lacinia, never desecrated until that day, and had been cruelly
slain actually within the temple enclosure. (F. Gardner Moore).
Livy 34.45.3-5: Tempsam item et Crotonem coloniae civium Romanorum deductae.
Tempsanus ager de Bruttiis captus erat; Brutti Graecos expulerant; Crotonem Graeci
habebant. Triumviri Cn. Octavius, L. Aemilius Paulus, C. Laetorius Crotonem, Tempsam
L. Cornelius Merula, Q. * *, C. Salonius deduxerunt.
Colonies of Roman citizens were established at Tempsa and Croton. The land of
Tempsa had been taken from the Bruttii, who in turn had expelled the Greeks; Croton had
been held by the Greeks. The triumvirs for Croton were Gnaeus Octavius, Lucius Aemilius
Paulus, and Gaius Laetorius; for Tempsa, Lucius Cornelius Merula, Quintus …, and Gaius
Salonius. (E. T. Sage).