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Cap. 109. Agrigento urbe eversa Hamilcar Gelam petit. Apollinis statua inde rapta et Tyrum transportata. Geloi fortiter se defendunt. 110. Dionysius Syracusanorum tyrannus acceptis a Graecis ex Italia auxiliis Gelois subsidio venit. Viginti dies moratus hostem tripartito aggreditur. 111. Dionysius pulsus intra moenia confugit. 112. Gela capta et direpta est, postquam Dionysius incolas secum abduxit; etiam Camarinaei auctore Dionysio Syracusas migrant. 113. Propter acceptam cladem, desertam a tyranno urbem subactasque Siciliae civitates omnium animi in Dionysium exacerbati. Syracusani equites, celeriter Syracusas reversi, eius regiam exspoliant. 114. Dionysius citato cursu Syracusas advectus equites et cives ulciscitur. Plurimi equites effugiunt et Aetnam oppidum condunt. Geloi et Camarinaei ad Leontinos abeunt. 114. Poeni victores peste vexati pacem ultro offerunt, quam Dionysius laetus accipit. Pacis condiciones. Sic in Graecia Peloponnesiacum, in Sicilia Punicum bellum hoc anno finitum est. LIB. XIV. Prooemium: Qui aetatem in excelso agunt, eis inprimis historiae iudicium timendum est. Id triginta tyrannorum, Lacedaemoniorum, Dionysii exemplis in hoc libro obviis illustratur. Additur cum priorum librorum, tum huius libri circumscriptio. Ol. 94, 1 : 404 a. Chr. 1—2. Pace inter Graecos facta inter Athenienses de constituenda reipublicae forma discordiae ortae. Lysander triginta virorum imperium instituit, quamvis Theramene aliisque adversantibus. 3. Theramenes vir iustissimus in triginta virorum numerum sufficitur. Magistratus ab his creantur. Lacedaemoniorum praesidium advocatur; quo freti triginta viri immanem exercent tyrannidem. 4—7. (Explicantur scelera triginta tyrannorum et mors Theramenis - implied content, text missing in source for specific range but next page continues).

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XXVIII ARGUMENT

Ch. 109. With the city of Agrigentum overthrown, Hamilcar heads for Gela. A statue of Apollo seized from there and transported to Tyre. The Geloans defend themselves bravely. 110. Dionysius, tyrant of the Syracusans, having received auxiliaries from the Greeks in Italy, comes to the aid of the Geloans. After delaying for twenty days, he attacks the enemy in three divisions. 111. Dionysius, repulsed, takes refuge within the walls. 112. Gela was captured and plundered, after Dionysius led away the inhabitants with him; also the Camarinaeans, on the advice of Dionysius, migrate to Syracuse. 113. Because of the disaster suffered, the city abandoned by the tyrant, and the subjugation of the Sicilian cities, the minds of all were embittered against Dionysius. The Syracusan cavalry, having quickly returned to Syracuse, plunder his palace. 114. Dionysius, having arrived at Syracuse by forced march, avenges himself on the cavalry and citizens. Most of the cavalry flee and found the town of Aetna. The Geloans and Camarinaeans depart to the Leontines. 114. The victorious Phoenicians, plagued by pestilence, voluntarily offer peace, which Dionysius gladly accepts. The terms of peace. Thus in Greece the Peloponnesian War, in Sicily the Punic War, ended in this year. BOOK XIV. Prologue: Those who live in high station must especially fear the judgment of history. This is illustrated by the examples of the Thirty Tyrants, the Lacedaemonians, and Dionysius, encountered in this book. Added is the delineation both of the previous books and of this book. Ol. 94, 1 : 404 BC 1—2. Peace having been made among the Greeks, discord arose among the Athenians concerning the establishment of the form of the state. Lysander established the rule of the Thirty, although Theramenes and others opposed it. 3. Theramenes, a most just man, is appointed to the number of the Thirty. Magistrates are created by them. A Lacedaemonian garrison is summoned; relying on this, the Thirty exercise monstrous tyranny. 4—7. (The crimes of the Thirty Tyrants and the death of Theramenes are explained - implied content, text missing in source for specific range but next page continues).

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