Paestum in 218 B.C.

Paestum — Roman Republic › Latin Colonies.

Founded 273 BC on the Lucanian coast on the site of the Greek city of Poseidonia, Paestum guarded the Tyrrhenian seaboard south of Campania. Its loyalty ran deep: in the crisis of the Hannibalic war it offered Rome its temple treasures to pay for the fleet.