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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tously renewed the war against Carthage. After brilliant success at first, he was again totally defeated, and forced to cede to Carthage all the territory west of the river Halykus, besides paying a tribute. So that the exact difference between the Sicilian territory of Carthage as it stood at the beginning of his command and at the end of his reign amounts to this: that at the earliei period it reached to the river Himera at the later period only to the river Halykus. The intermediate space between the two comprehends Agrigentum with the greater part of its territory; which represents therefore the extent of Hellenic soil rescued by Dionysius from Carthaginian dominion. CHAPTER LXXXIV. AFFAIRS AFTER THE DEATH OK THE ELDER DIONYSIUS -DIONYSIUS THE YOUNGER-AND DION. The Elder Dionysius, at the moment of his death, boasted of having left his dominion fastened by chains of adamant; that is, sustained by a large body of mercenaries,1 well trained and well paid by impregnable fortifications on the islet of Ortygia by four hundred ships of war by immense magazines of wms and military stores and by established intimidation over minds of the Symcusans. These were really chains of adamant -so long a? there was a man like Dionysius to keep them in hand. Buf he left no successor competent to the task; nor indeed an unobstructed succession. He had issue by two wives, whom he had married both at the same time, as has been already mentioned. By the Lokrian wife, Doris, he had his eld est son named Diopysjus, ind two others; by the Syracusan wife 1 Both Diodorus (xvi'9) and'Ceinelms Nepoa'iDion'S)1 speak of one hundred thousand foot aad ten thousand horse. The'formf speaks of foul hundred ships of war, latter of five hpndrtd.1 '. The numbers ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458829764 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458829766 |
| Weight | 1.24 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.85 In |
| List Price | $28.94 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 384 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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