The Geography of Strabo, Vol. III (Loeb)

“Much people will one day perish about Laïan Draco.”

For the peoples In the Greek original, there is a wordplay between "laoi" (people) and "Laos" (the city/river name). who campaigned against this place—the Greeks living in Italy—met with disaster at the hands of the Lucanians, having been deceived by the oracle.

2. These are the places on the Tyrrhenian coast that belong to the Lucanians. They did not touch the other sea The Adriatic. at first; rather, the Greeks who held the Tarentine Gulf were in control there. Before the Greeks arrived, the Lucanians did not even exist, as the Chones and Oenotrians occupied those regions. But after the Samnites grew significantly in power and expelled the Chones and Oenotrians, and settled a colony of Lucanians in this part, while the Greeks simultaneously held the coast on both sides as far as the Strait, the Greeks and the barbarians warred against each other for a long time. The tyrants of Sicily and later the Carthaginians—who were at war with the Romans sometimes over Sicily and sometimes over Italy itself—maltreated everyone in this region, especially the Greeks. Later, beginning from the time of the Trojan War, the Greeks had taken away much of the interior territory from the earlier inhabitants, and indeed they grew so powerful that they called this region, along with Sicily, "Magna Graecia." But today, except for Tarentum and Rhegium...