Life of Timoleon, 1.1.1

Plutarch  translated by Bernadotte Perrin

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1The state of affairs in Syracuse, before the expedition of Timoleon into Sicily, was as follows. After Dion had driven out Dionysius the tyrant, he was at once treacherously slain,[4] and those who had helped him to free Syracuse were divided among themselves. The city, therefore, was continually exchanging one tyrant for another, and owing to a multitude of ills was almost abandoned, while as for the rest of Sicily, part of it was ruined and already wholly without inhabitants by reason of the wars,

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Notes

  • [4] See the Dion, chapter lvii. This was in 354 B.C.

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