The Geography of Strabo, Vol. III (Loeb)

it is a peninsula which contains the isthmus running from the Scylletian Gulf to the Hipponiate Gulf. The tribe was named by the Lucanians; for they call those who revolt "Brettii." They revolted, as they say, while they were originally shepherds for them, and then, finding freedom through the indulgence of their masters, at the time when Dion campaigned against Dionysius and threw everyone into conflict with everyone else. These are the general remarks we make concerning the Lucanians and the Brettii.

5. From the River Laüs, the first city is Temesa (which modern people call Tempsa), a foundation of the Ausones, and later also of the Aetolians under Thoas, whom the Brettii expelled, and the Brettii themselves were later crushed by Hannibal and the Romans. Near Temesa is a hero-temple, thickly shaded with wild olive trees, belonging to Polites, one of the companions of Odysseus, who, having been treacherously murdered by the barbarians, became so intensely wrathful that the local people, according to an oracle, paid tribute to him. Hence there is a proverb applied to the merciless, saying that the hero of Temesa besets them. But when the Epizephyrian Locrians captured the city, the story goes that Euthymus the boxer engaged him in battle, defeated him, and forced him to release the locals from the tribute.