The former statement is of the same stamp, and perhaps from the same source, with that regarding the Roman embassy to Babylon (II.VII.Relations Between The East and West).

It seems more likely that Demetrius Poliorcetes may have tried by edict to put down piracy in the Tyrrhene sea which he had never set eyes upon, and it is not at all inconceivable that the Antiates may have even as Roman citizens, in defiance of the prohibition, continued for a time their old trade in an underhand fashion: much dependence must not however, be placed even on the second story.
20.

II.VI.Last Campaigns in Samnium 21.

II.VII.Decline of the Roman Naval Power 22.

According to Servius (in Aen.iv.