Myscelus

(Μύσκελος). A native of Achaia, who founded Croton in Italy, B.C. 710, by order of the Delphic oracle, which had commanded him to build a city, where he should find rain with fine weather. For a long time he thought it impossible to fulfil the command of the oracle, till at length he found in Italy a beautiful woman in tears; whereupon he perceived that the oracle was accomplished, and straightway founded Croton on the spot (Dionys.ii. 59).