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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 15 | 15 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Hellenica (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 12 | 12 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 23-25 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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389 B.C.When
the year had ended, in Athens Antipater was archon, and in Rome Lucius Valerius and Aulus
Mallius administered the consular magistracy. This year Dionysius, the lord of the Syracusans,
openly indicated his design of an attack on Italy and set forth from Syracuse with a most
formidable force. He had more than twenty thousand infantry,
some three thousand cavalry, forty ships of war, and not less than three hundred vessels
transporting food supplies. On arriving at Messene on the fifth day he rested his troops in the
city, while he dispatched his brother Thearides with thirty ships to the islands of the
Liparaeans, since he had learned that ten ships of the Rhegians were in those waters.
Thearides, sailing forth and coming upon the ten Rhegian
ships in a place favourable to his purpose, seized the ships together with their crews and
speedily returned to Dionysius at Messene. Dionysius threw the prisoners in chains and