Sybarites
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the Sybarites · city of the Sybarites
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The Histories
The people of Sybaris, whose account credits Dorieus with helping Croton defeat them, offered as one of two rival local traditions.
The Sybarites point to a precinct and a temple beside the dry bed of the Crathis, which, they say, Dorieus founded in honor of Athena of Crathis after he had helped to take their city.
Now at this time, as the Sybarites say, they and their king Telys were making ready to march against Croton, and the men of Croton, who were very much afraid, entreated Dorieus to come to their aid.
Now when the Milesians suffered all this at the hands of the Persians, the Sybarites (who had lost their city and dwelt in Laus and Scidrus) did not give them equal return for what they had done.
On Anger
Inhabitants of Sybaris, proverbial in antiquity for excessive luxury and softness.
They say there was a certain Mindyrides, of the city of the Sybarites, who, when he had seen a man digging and raising his mattock rather high, complained that he was made weary, and forbade the man to do that work in his sight;