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M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for Quintius, Sextus Roscius, Quintus Roscius, against Quintus Caecilius, and against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 40 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 38 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States | 13 | 1 | Browse | Search |
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1865., [Electronic resource] | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for Quintius, Sextus Roscius, Quintus Roscius, against Quintus Caecilius, and against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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When the Syracusans heard that the
Athenian armaments were at the Strait,Of Messina. they appointed three generals with supreme
power, Hermocrates, Sicanus, and Heracleides, who enrolled soldiers and dispatched ambassadors
to the cities of Sicily, urging them to do their share
in the cause of their common liberty; for the Athenians, they pointed out, while beginning the
war, as they alleged, upon the Syracusans, were in fact intent upon subduing the entire island.
Now the Acragantini and Naxians declared that they would ally
themselves with the Athenians; the Camarinaeans and Messenians gave assurances that they would
maintain the peace, while postponing a reply to the request for an alliance; but the
Himeraeans, Selinuntians, Geloans, and Catanaeans promised that they would fight at the side of
the Syracusans. The cities of the Siceli, while tending to be favourably inclined toward the
Syracusans, nevertheless remained neutral,