5. From the Lao the first city is the Temesa[2104] of the Bruttii, which at present is called Tempsa. It was founded by the Ausonians; afterwards the Ætolians, under the command of Thoas, gained possession of it. These were expelled by the Bruttii; Hannibal and the Romans have overthrown the Bruttii.[2105] In the vicinity of Temesa is the Heroum of Polites, one of the companions of Ulysses. It is surrounded by a thick grove of wild olives. He was treacherously slain by the barbarians, and became in consequence very wrathful, and his shade so tormented the inhabitants that they submitted to pay him a tribute, according to the direction of a certain oracle. Thus it became a proverb amongst them, “Let no one offend the hero of Temesa,” for they said that [for a long time he[2106]] had tormented them. But when the Epizephyrian Locrians took the city, they feign that Euthymus the pugilist went out against him, and having overcome him in fight, constrained him to free the inhabitants from tribute.[2107] They say that the poet intended this Temesa, and not the Tamassus[2108] in Cyprus, (for it is said that the words are suitable to either,[2109]) when he sings, “in quest of brass To Temesa.”[2110] [CAS. 256] and certain copper-mines are pointed out near to the place, which are now exhausted. Contiguous to it is Terina,[2111] which Hannibal destroyed, when he found he could no longer retain it; at the time when he took refuge in the country of the Bruttii.[2112] Next in order comes Cosentia,[2113] the metropolis of the Bruttii. A little above it is Pandosia, which is strongly fortified, before which Alexander the Molossian king was overthrown. This prince was led astray by the oracle of Dodona, which commanded him to avoid Acheron and Pandosia;[2114] for places with names like these being pointed out in Thesprotia, caused him to lose his life[2115] here. The position has three summits, and the river Acheron flows by it. He was also mistaken in another oracle, “O Pandosia, thou three-topp’d hill, Hereafter many people thou shalt kill;”