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Cap. 59. Empedione deprecatore Hannibal paucis qui effugerant facultatem urbis restituendae concessit. Inde Himeram profectus, hanc quoque urbem oppugnat. 60. Himeraei eorumque socii victoriam paene partam perdunt. 61. Syracusanorum auxilia atque plurimi incolae Himeram deserunt. 62. Tandem vi expugnata Himera, barbari immani caede grassantur totamque urbem vastant. Hannibal praeda onustus Carthaginem redit. 63. Hermocrates Syracusanorum olim praetor, per factionem in exilium eiectus, tum a Pharnabazo pecunia adiutus in Siciliam rediit et agros Carthaginiensibus subiectos depopulatus gratiam popularium recuperavit. 64. Thrasybulus (vel potius Thrasyllus) Atheniensium dux Epheso repulsus Lesbum petit; Theramenes Chalcedonem et Byzantium obsidet; Alcibiades pecuniae vim e Pharnabazi provincia exigit. Pylus, quam Messenii tenebant, a Lacedaemoniis recuperatur. 65. Megarenses Nisaeam capiunt, Lacedaemonii Chium. 66. Lacedaemonii ad Chalcedonem proelio victi sunt. Alcibiades ex Chersoneso et ab Thracibus magnas opes multosque socios assecutus cum Theramene Byzantium obsidet. 67. Byzantium proditione in Atheniensium potestatem redactum est. Ol. 93, 1 : 408 a. Chr. 68. Relicto Byzantii praesidio subactisque Hellesponti urbibus, Atheniensium imperatores cum classe spoliis referta Athenas contendunt. Accepti sunt maximo plausu, inprimis Alcibiades. 69. Alcibiades in integrum restitutus et summo terra marique imperio affectus Andrum, Con, Rhodum subigit. 70. Lysander Lacedaemoniorum imperator in locum Mindari substitutus novam classem instruit; a rege Persarum pecunia adiuvatur. 71. Atheniensium classis ad Notium fusa est a Lysandro, quem Antiochus absente et invito Alcibiade ad proelium provocarat.

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Ch. 59. At the entreaty of Empedion, Hannibal granted the few who had escaped the opportunity to restore the city. Thence proceeding to Himera, he also besieges this city. 60. The Himeraeans and their allies lose a victory almost won. 61. The Syracusan auxiliaries and most of the inhabitants abandon Himera. 62. Finally, Himera having been stormed, the barbarians rage with immense slaughter and lay waste the entire city. Hannibal, laden with booty, returns to Carthage. 63. Hermocrates, once praetor of the Syracusans, driven into exile by a faction, then aided with money by Pharnabazus, returned to Sicily and, having ravaged the territories subject to the Carthaginians, regained the favor of his countrymen. 64. Thrasybulus (or rather Thrasyllus), the Athenian commander, repulsed from Ephesus, heads for Lesbos; Theramenes besieges Chalcedon and Byzantium; Alcibiades exacts a large sum of money from Pharnabazus' province. Pylus, which the Messenians held, is recovered by the Lacedaemonians. 65. The Megarians capture Nisaea, the Lacedaemonians capture Chios. 66. The Lacedaemonians were defeated in battle at Chalcedon. Alcibiades, having obtained great resources and many allies from the Chersonese and from the Thracians, besieges Byzantium together with Theramenes. 67. Byzantium was reduced by treachery into the power of the Athenians. Ol. 93, 1 : 408 BC 68. Having left a garrison at Byzantium and subdued the cities of the Hellespont, the Athenian commanders hasten to Athens with their fleet laden with spoils. They were received with the greatest applause, especially Alcibiades. 69. Alcibiades, fully restored and invested with supreme command by land and sea, subdues Andros, Cos, and Rhodes. 70. Lysander, appointed Lacedaemonian commander in place of Mindarus, equips a new fleet; he is aided with money by the king of the Persians. 71. The Athenian fleet at Notium was routed by Lysander, whom Antiochus had provoked to battle in the absence and against the will of Alcibiades.

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