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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 27 | 27 | Browse | Search |
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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414 B.C.When Tisandrus was archon in Athens, the
Romans elected in place of consuls four military tribunes, Publius Lucretius, Gaius Servilius,
Agrippa Menenius, and Spurius Veturius. In this year the Syracusans, dispatching ambassadors to
both Corinth and Lacedaemon, urged these cities to come to their aid and not to stand idly by when
total ruin threatened the Syracusans. Since Alcibiades
supported their request, the Lacedaemonians voted to send aid to the Syracusans and chose
Gylippus to be general, and the Corinthians made preparations to send a number of triremes, but
at the moment they sent in advance to Sicily,
accompanying Gylippus, Pythes with two triremes. And in Catane
Nicias and Lamachus, the Athenian generals, after two hundred and fifty cavalry and three
hundred talents of silver had come to them from Athens, took their army aboard and sailed to Syracuse. They arrived at the city by night and unobserved by the Syracusans