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Messene and Rhegium
For misfortunes befell Messene and Rhegium, the cities
The story of the Mamertines at Messene, and the Roman garrison at Rhegium, Dio. Cassius fr.
built on either side of the StrMessene and Rhegium, the cities
The story of the Mamertines at Messene, and the Roman garrison at Rhegium, Dio. Cassius fr.
built on either side of the Strait, peculiar in
their nature and alike in their circumstances.
Not long before the period we are now
describing some Campanian mercenaries of
Agathocles, having for some time cast greedy
eyes upon MMessene, and the Roman garrison at Rhegium, Dio. Cassius fr.
built on either side of the Strait, peculiar in
their nature and alike in their circumstances.
Not long before the period we are now
describing some Campanian mercenaries of
Agathocles, having for some time cast greedy
eyes upon Messene, owing to its beauty and wealth, no
sooner got an opportunity than they made a
treacherous attempt upon that city. 1. Messene. They
entered the town under guise of friendship, and, having oncMessene, owing to its beauty and wealth, no
sooner got an opportunity than they made a
treacherous attempt upon that city. 1. Messene. They
entered the town under guise of friendship, and, having once
got possession of it, they drove out some of the
citizens and put others to the sword. Agathocles died, B. C. 289. This
done, they seized promiscuously the wives and
children of the dispossessed ciMessene. They
entered the town under guise of friendship, and, having once
got possession of it, they drove out some of the
citizens and put others to the sword. Agathocles died, B. C. 289. This
done, they seized promiscuously the wives and
children of the dispossessed citizens, each keeping those which
fortune had assigned him at the very moment of the lawless
deed. All other property and the land they took possession
of by a subsequent division and retained.
The sp
The Rise of Hiero II
But the Mamertines (for this was the name which the
Effect of the fall of the rebellious garrison of Rhegium on the Mamertines.
Campanians gave themselves after they became masters of Messene), as long as they
enjoyed the alliance of the Roman captors of
Rhegium, not only exercised absolute control
over their own town and district undisturbed,
but about the neighbouring territory also gave no little trouble
to the Carthaginians and Syracusans, and levied tribute from
many parts of Sicily. But when they were deprived of this
support, the captors of Rhegium being now invested and besieged, they were themselves promptly forced back into the
town again by the Syracusans, under circumstances which I
will now detail.
Not long before this the military forces of the SyracusansThe rise of Hiero. He is elected General by the army, B. C. 275-274.
had quarrelled with the citizens, and while stationed near Merganè elected commanders from
their own body. These were Artemidorus