pletorius

Updated: May 10, 2025

To Tempsa, likewise, and to Croto, colonies of Roman citizens were led out. The lands of Tempsa had been taken from the Bruttians, who had formerly expelled the Greeks from them. Croto was possessed by Greeks. In ordering these establishments, there were named, for Croto, Cneius Octavius, Lucius Aemilius Paullus, and Caius Pletorius; for Tempsa, Lucius Cornelius Merula, and Caius Salonius.

Livy - The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36