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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 44 | 44 | Browse | Search |
| Xenophon, Hellenica (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Aristotle, Politics | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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401 B.C.In Sicily Dionysius, the tyrant of the Siceli,See 7.1, note. since his government was making satisfactory progress, determined to
make war upon the Carthaginians; but being not yet sufficiently prepared, he concealed this
purpose of his while making the necessary preparations for the coming encounters. And realizing that in the war with Athens the city had been blocked off
by a wall that ran from the sea to the sea,See Book
13.7. he took care that he should never, where caught at a similar disadvantage, be cut
off from contact with the countryside; for he saw that the site of Epipolae, as it is called,
naturally commanded the city of the Syracusans. Sending,
therefore, for his master-builders, in accord with their advice he decided that he must fortify
Epipolae at the point where there stands now the Wall with the Six Gates. For this place, which faces north, is precipitous in its entirety, and
so steep that access is hardly to be w