Histories

The Phocaeans also manned their ships, sixty in number, and met the enemy in the sea called Sardonian. They engaged and the Phocaeans won, yet it was only a kind of Cadmean victory;[*](Polynices and Eteocles, sons of Oedipus and descendants of Cadmus, fought for the possession of Thebes [23.3333,38.325] (Perseus) Thebes and killed each other. Hence a Cadmean victory means one where victor and vanquished suffer alike.) for they lost forty of their ships, and the twenty that remained were useless, their rams twisted awry.

Then sailing to Aleria [9.5,42.83] (inhabited place), Haute-Corse, Corsica, France, Europe Alalia they took their children and women and all of their possessions that their ships could hold on board, and leaving Cyrnus they sailed to Reggio di Calabria [15.65,38.1] (inhabited place), Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy, EuropeRhegium.

As for the crews of the disabled ships, the Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians drew lots for them, and of the Tyrrhenians the Agyllaioi [*](Later Caere [12.1,42] (Perseus)Caere in Etruria (region (general)), Italy, Europe Etruria. “And of the Tyrrhenians the Agyllaioi” supplemented by Stein.) were allotted by far the majority and these they led out and stoned to death. But afterwards, everything from Agylla that passed the place where the stoned Phocaeans lay, whether sheep or beasts of burden or men, became distorted and crippled and palsied.

The Agyllaeans sent to Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi, wanting to mend their offense; and the Pythian priestess told them to do what the people of Agylla do to this day: for they pay great honors to the Phocaeans, with religious rites and games and horse-races.

Such was the end of this part of the Phocaeans. Those of them who fled to Reggio di Calabria [15.65,38.1] (inhabited place), Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy, Europe Rhegium set out from there and gained possession of that city in the Oenotrian [*](Oenotria corresponds to Southern Italy [12.833,42.833] (nation), Europe Italy (the Basilicata [16.166,40.5] (region), Italy, EuropeLucania and Calabria [16.5,39] (region), Italy, EuropeBruttium of Roman history.).) country which is now called Elea (deserted settlement), Salerno, Campania, Italy, EuropeHyele;[*](Later Elea [15.1833,40.1333] (Perseus)Elea (Velia [15.15,40.1667] (Perseus)Velia).)

they founded this because they learned from a man of Posidonia that the Cyrnus whose establishment the Pythian priestess ordained was the hero, and not the island.