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Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7, section 1235a (search)
The sculptor Perilaus made a brazen bull for
Phalaris the tyrantOf Acragas, c. 570-c. 554 B.C. to use in punishing
his own people, but he was himself the first to make trial of that terrible form of punishment.
For, in general, those who plan an evil thing aimed at others are usually snared in their own
devices.Const. Exc. 4, p. 286.
The Syracusans at the outset seized a part of the city which
is called Tyche,This section adjoined Achradine on the
west. and operating from there they dispatched ambassadors to Gela, Acragas, and
Selinus, and also to Himera and the cities of the
Siceli in the interior of the island, asking them to come together with all speed and join with
them in liberating Syracuse. And since all these cities acceded to this request eagerly and hurriedly
dispatched aid, some of them infantry and cavalry and others warships fully equipped for
action, in a brief time there was collected a considerable armament with which to aid the
Syracusans. Consequently the Syracusans, having made ready their ships and drawn up their army
for battle, demonstrated that they were ready to fight to a finish both on land and on sea.
Now Thrasybulus, abandoned as he was by his allies and basing
his hopes only upon the mercenaries, was master only of Achradine an