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 | | After this we find them engaged in hostilities with the Tarentines, and with Alexander, king of Epirus, who was called in by the Tarentine people to their assistance, in 326 BCE, thus providing a precedent for Epirote interference in the affairs of Magna Graecia.. |
 | | In 298 BCE, Livy records, they made alliance with Rome, and Roman influence was extended by the colonies of Venusia (291 B.C.), Paestum (Greek Posidonia, refounded in 273), and above all Roman Tarentum (refounded in 272). |
 | | When Pyrrhus of Epirus landed in Italy, 281 BCE they were among the first to declare in his favor, and after his abrupt departure they were reduced to subjection, in a ten year campaign (272 B.C.). |
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