Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, THE SIXTH BOOK, chapter 5

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5. After Zancle was built Himera, by Eucleides, Simus, and Sacon, the most of which colony were Chalcideans; but there were also amongst them certain outlaws of Syracuse, the vanquished part of a sedition, called the Myletidae. Their language grew to a mean between the Chalcidean and Doric; but the laws of the Chalcidean prevailed. [2] Acrae and Casmenae were built by the Syracusians, Acrae twenty years after Syracuse, and Casmenae almost twenty after Acrae. [3] Camarina was at first built by the Syracusians, very near the hundred and thirty-fifth year of their own city, Dascon and Menecolus being the conductors. But the Camarinaeans having been by the Syracusians driven from their seat by war for revolt, Hippocrates, tyrant of Gela, in process of time, taking of the Syracusians that territory for ransom of certain Syracusian prisoners, became their founder, and placed them in Camarina again. After this again, having been driven thence by Gelon, they were planted the third time in the same city.

The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.

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- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 6.24
- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 7.154
- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 7.155
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.34
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, SPEECH OF NICIAS TO THE ATHENI- ANS ON LEAVING SYRACUSE.
Cross-references to this page (12):
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, HIMERA Sicily.
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, KAMARINA Sicily.
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, KASMENAI Sicily.
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ACRAE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CAMARI´NA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CA´SMENAE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), HI´MERA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MESSA´NA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SYRACU´SAE
- Smith's Bio, Eucleides
- Smith's Bio, Gelon
- Smith's Bio, Hippo'crates
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SICI´LIA
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- LSJ, Δωρ-ίς
- LSJ, ἐγγύς
- LSJ, φων-ή
- LSJ, κεράνν-υ_μι
- LSJ, κρα^τ-έω
- LSJ, κτίσ-ις
- LSJ, λύτρ-ον
- LSJ, οἰκ-ίζω
- LSJ, συνοικ-ίζω
- LSJ, τρίτος
- LSJ, ὑπό

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