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Title: Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Freeman, Edward Augustus, 1823-1892
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Publisher: London : Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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long the south side, seemingly to the pointcalled PortcUa del Fusco. There the wall must havecomedown the hill into the lower ground, and it musthave been carried down to the shore of the GreatHarbour. It was a wonderful work, most carefullydone, and a great deal of it is left. And this, unlikethe fortification of the Island, was not a merestrengthening of his own power, but a real strengthen-ing of the city. It was a work of which any lawfulking or magistrate might have been proud. To suchan end the people worked gladly along with thetyrant, and the work did something to make histyranny less hateful. Thus Dionysios made Syracuse, at all events inextent, the greatest city of Hellas and of Europe. Hewas now ready to wage war with the great barbariancommonwealth. We know not whether these eventshave anything to do with the fact that about this timehe founded a new city at the foot of yEtna. Thiswas close by the temple of the Sikel fire-godHadranus. We know not whom he planted there, but
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DIONVSIOS DOUBLE MARRIAGE. 165 the town took the name of the god, Iladraniim, nowAdcrno, and its people looked on themselves as hisspecial servants. As for the older cities, there was now,between Dionysios and the Carthaginians, only onefree Greek commonwealth left in Sicily, namelyMessana. And by this time the dread of Dionysioswas spreading beyond Sicily. The Chalkidian townof Rhcgion began a war with Dionysios, which de-layed his Punic enterprise somewhat. But as Rhegionwas but feebly supported by Messana, both citieswere soon glad to make peace. And just then it suitedDionysios not to press hardly on them. To strengthenhis interest in Italy, he thought of taking a wife there.But the Rhegines, whom he first asked, refused him.Some say that they added the insult that he might,if he pleased, take the hangmans daughter. But atLokroi they gave him Doris, the daughter of one oftheir chief men. On the same day that he marriedDoris, he also married the Syracusan Aristomache,both of them w

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