Editing Crotone (section)

===Roman era===

What was left of its population submitted to [[Roman Republic|Rome]] in 277 BC. After the [[Battle of Cannae]] in the [[Second Punic War]] (216 BC), Croton was betrayed to the Brutii by a democratic leader named [[Aristomachus of Croton|Aristomachus]], who defected to the Roman side. [[Hannibal]] made it his winter quarters for three years,{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=511}} and the city was not recaptured until 205 or 204 BC after the [[Battle of Crotona|Battles of Croton]].

In 194 BC, it became the site of a Roman colony. Little more is heard of it during the Republican and [[Roman Empire|Imperial]] periods, though the action of one of the more significant surviving fragments of the ''[[Satyricon]]'' of [[Petronius]] is set in Croton, where he mentions the corrupt morals of its inhabitants.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=511}}