That can only be on the lower ground; these furrowed heights declare a perpetual sterility.
What has become of the ruins of Croton?
This squalid little town of to-day has nothing left from antiquity.

Yet a city bounded with a wall of twelve miles circumference is not easily swept from the face of the earth.

Bishop Lucifer, wanting stones for his palace, had to go as far as the Cape Colonna; then, as now, no block of Croton remained.

Nearly two hundred years before Christ the place was forsaken.

Rome colonized it anew, and it recovered an obscure life as a place of embarkation for Greece, its houses occupying only the rock of the ancient citadel.