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As for Gelon, after his victory he not only honoured with gifts the horsemen who had
slain Hamilcar but also decorated with rewards for prowess all others who had played the part
of men. The fairest part of the booty he put to one side, since he wished to embellish the
temples of Syracuse with the spoils; as for the
rest of the booty, much of it he nailed to the most notable of the temples in Himera, and the rest of it, together with the captives, he
divided among the allies, apportioning it in accordance with the number who had served with
him. The cities put the captives allotted to them in chains
and used them for building their public works. A very great number was received by the
Acragantini, who embellished their city and countryside; for so great was the multitude of
prisoners at their disposal that many private citizens had five hundred captives in their
homes. A contributing reason for the vast number of the captives among them
This battle had already come to an end
when there arrived at Himera from the Sicilian
Greeks the twenty-five triremes which had previously been sent to aid the LacedaemoniansCp. chaps. 34.4; 40.5; 63.1. but at this time had
returned from the campaign. And a report also spread through
the city that the Syracusans en masse together with their allies were on the march
to the aid of the Himeraeans and that Hannibal was preparing to man his triremes in Motye with
his choicest troops and, sailing to Syracuse,
seize that city while it was stripped of its defenders. Consequently Diocles, who commanded the forces in Himera, advised the admirals of the fleet to set sail with all speed for
Syracuse, in order that it might not happen that
the city should be taken by storm while its best troops were fighting a war abroad. They decided, therefore, that their best course was to abandon the city,
and that they should embark half the populace on the tr
Those who had been left
behind in Himera spent the night under arms on the
walls; and when with the coming of day the Carthaginians surrounded the city and launched
repeated attacks, the remaining Himeraeans fought with no thought for their lives, expecting
the arrival of the ships. For that day, therefore, they
continued to hold out, but on the next, even when the triremes were already in sight, it so
happened that the wall began to fall before the blows of the siege-engines and the Iberians to
pour in a body into the city. Some of the barbarians thereupon would hold off the Himeraeans
who rushed up to bring aid, while others, gaining command of the walls, would help their
comrades get in. Now that the city had been taken by storm,
for a long time the barbarians continued, with no sign of compassion, to slaughter everyone
they seized. But when Hannibal issued orders to take prisoners, although the slaughter stopped,
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