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Socii (Roman confederation) | | Coloniae | Etrusci, Etruria | Italy, languages | Colonization | Punic Wars
(Κρότων, Krótōn, Lat. Croto[n]). City founded in around 733 BC by Achaean colonists under Myscellus from Rhypae, in response to a Delphic oracle, on the eastern coast of Bruttium in southern Italy (Antiochus, FGrH 555 F 10). In the 6th cent. BC, C. expanded at the expense of its neighbouring colonies: important milestones were the capture and destruction of Siris in the middle of t…