Later it was so hard pressed by the Lucanians that it had recourse to alliance with Rome and a Roman army was sent to its relief under Gaius Fabricius Luscinus in 282 BC. He defeated the Lucanians and Bruttians, who had laid siege to the city, in a pitched battle and several other successes broke their power, and thus relieved the Thurians from all immediate danger from that quarter.Livy Epit. xi.; Pliny xxxiv. 6. s. 15; Valerius Maximus 1. 8. § 6 But shortly after they were attacked on the other side by the Tarentines, who are said to have taken and plundered their city;Appian, Samn. 7. § 1. and this aggression was one of the immediate causes of the war declared by the Romans against Tarentum in 282 BC.
Later it was so hard pressed by the Lucanians that it had recourse to alliance with Rome and a Roman army was sent to its relief under Gaius Fabricius Luscinus in 282 BC. He defeated the Lucanians and Bruttians, who had laid siege to the city in a pitched battle and several other successes broke their power, and thus relieved the Thurians from all immediate danger from that quarter.Livy Epit. xi.; Pliny xxxiv. 6. s. 15; Valerius Maximus 1. 8. § 6 But shortly after they were attacked on the other side by the Tarentines, who are said to have taken and plundered their city;Appian, Samn. 7. § 1. and this aggression was one of the immediate causes of the war declared by the Romans against Tarentum in 282 BC.