§19.1.1ὅτι Κρότων πόλις ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ ἐστὶ καὶ Σύβαρις ἀπὸ τοῦ παραρρέοντος ποταμοῦ οὕτως κληθεῖσα.
That Croton is a city in Italy, and Sybaris, so called from the river flowing by it.
§19.1.2ὅτε Λακεδαιμόνιοι Μεσήνην ἐπολέμουν καὶ χῆρος ἀνδρῶν ἡ πόλις ἦν, δεομέναις ταῖς γυναιξὶ καὶ μάλιστα ταῖς ἐν ἀκμῇ παρθένοις μὴ περιιδεῖν τὰς μὲν ἀγάμους, τὰς δὲ ἀτέκνους γινομένας ἐπέμποντό τινες ἀεὶ νέοι παραλλὰξ ἀπὸ τοῦ στρατοπέδου τῆς μίξεως τῶν γυναικῶν ἕνεκα καὶ συνῄεσαν, αἷς ἐπιτύχοιεν·
When the Lacedaemonians were warring against Messene and the city was destitute of men, at the entreaty of the women, and especially of the maidens in their prime, that they should not allow some to remain unmarried and others childless, certain young men were constantly sent in turn from the camp for the sake of intercourse with the women and cohabited with whomever they met.
ἐκ τούτων γίνονται τῶν ἀδιακρίτων ἐπιμιξιῶν παῖδες, οὓς ἀνδρωθέντας οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι προεπηλάκιζον τά τε ἄλλα καὶ Παρθενίας προσηγόρευον.
From these indiscriminate unions children were born, whom, when they grew up, the Lacedaemonians treated with contempt in other ways and especially called Partheniae.
§19.1.3στάσεως δὲ γενομένης ἡττηθέντες οἱ παρθενίαι ἀναχωροῦσιν ἑκόντες ἐκ τῆς πόλεως καὶ πέμψαντες εἰς Δελφοὺς χρησμὸν ἔλαβον πλεῖν εἰς Ἰταλίαν, ἐξευρόντας δὲ χωρίον τῆς Ἰαπυγίας Σατύριον καὶ ποταμὸν Τάραντα, ἔνθʼ ἂν ἴδωσι τράγον τῇ θαλάττῃ τέγγοντα τὸ γένειον, ἐκεῖ §19.1.4τοὺς βίους ἱδρύσασθαι.
When a faction arose, the Partheniae, having been defeated, withdrew voluntarily from the city, and having sent to Delphi, they received an oracle to sail to Italy, and having found Satyrion, a place in Iapygia, and the river Taras, wherever they should see a goat wetting its beard in the sea, there to establish their homes.
πλεύσαντες δὲ τόν τε ποταμὸν ἐξεῦρον καὶ κατά τινος ἐρινεοῦ πλησίον τῆς θαλάττης πεφυκότος ἄμπελον ἐθεάσαντο κατακεχυμένην, ἐξ ἧς τῶν ἐπιτράγων τις καθειμένος ἥπτετο τῆς θαλάττης.
Having sailed, they found both the river and, near a certain wild fig tree growing close to the sea, they beheld a vine hanging down, from which one of the vine-shoots, hanging low, touched the sea.
τοῦτον ὑπολαβόντες εἶναι τὸν τράγον, ὃν προεῖπεν αὐτοῖς ὁ θεὸς ὄψεσθαι τέγγοντα τὸ γένειον τῇ θαλάττῃ, αὐτοῦ μένοντες ἐπολέμουν Ἰάπυγας, καὶ ἱδρύονται τὴν ἐπώνυμον τοῦ ποταμοῦ Τάραντος πόλιν.
Supposing this to be the "goat" which the god had foretold they would see wetting its beard in the sea, they remained there, made war on the Iapygians, and founded the city named after the river Taras.