The Geography of Strabo, Vol. III (Loeb)

They withstood the Lucanians and the people of Poseidonia, and came off as the stronger party, even though they were inferior in both territory and population. At any rate, because of the poverty of their soil, they are forced to busy themselves for the most part with the sea, setting up fish-salting factories and other such industries. Antiochus Antiochus of Syracuse, the historian. says that after Phocaea was captured by Harpagus, the general of Cyrus, those who were able embarked with their entire households on their ships and, led by Creontiades, sailed first to Cyrnus Corsica. and Massalia. Being driven away from there, they founded Elea. Some say the name comes from the river Elees; the city is about two hundred stadia from Poseidonia. After this comes the promontory of Palinurus. Before the territory of Elea lie the two Oenotrian islands, which have anchorages. After Palinurus comes the cape, harbor, and river of Pyxus—for all three share the name. Micythus, the ruler of Messene in Sicily, settled this place with new colonists, but they all sailed away again except for a few. After Pyxus comes another gulf and the river and city of Laüs, the last of the Lucanian cities, lying a little above the sea. It is a colony of the Sybarites, and the distance from Elea is four hundred stadia. The entire voyage along the coast of Lucania is six hundred and fifty stadia. Near it is the hero-shrine of Draco, one of the companions of Odysseus, regarding which the following oracle was given to the Italiotes: The Greek inhabitants of Italy.