Among the Sybarites Philoctetes is said to be honoured; for on his return from Troy he founded in the Crotonian territory the town called Macalla, which they say is one hundred and twenty stadia distant; and they relate that he dedicated the bow and arrows of Heracles in the temple of Apollo the sea god: but from there they say that the Crotonians, during theirdominion, took them, and dedicated them in the temple of Apollo in their own city.