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It was not in the case
of Tellias only that such magnificence of wealth occurred, he says, but also of many other
inhabitants of Acragas. Antisthenes at any rate, who
was called Rhodus, when celebrating the marriage of
his daughter, gave a party to all the citizens in the courtyards where they all lived and more
than eight hundred chariots followed the bride in the procession; furthermore, not only the men
on horseback from the city itself but also many from neighb , the city was filled with light, and the main streets through
which the procession was to pass could not contain the accompanying throng, all the inhabitants
zealously emulating the man's grand manner. For at that time the citizens of Acragas numbered more than twenty thousand, and when resident
aliens were included, not less than two hundred thousand. And
men say that once when Antisthenes saw his son quarrelling with a neighbouring farmer, a poor
man, and pressing hi
Since Himilcar, after besieging the city for eight months, had taken it
shortly before the winter solstice,December 22. he
did not destroy it at once, in order that his forces might winter in the dwellings. But when
the misfortune that had befallen Acragas was noised
abroad, such fear took possession of the island that of the Sicilian Greeks some removed to
Syracuse and others transferred their children
and wives and all their possessions to Italy.
The Acragantini who had escaped being taken captive, when
they arrived in Syracuse, lodged accusations
against their generals, asserting that it was due to their treachery that their country had
perished. And it so happened that the Syracusans also came in for censure by the rest of the
Sicilian Greeks, because, as they charged, they elected the kind of leaders through whose fault
the whole of Sicily ran the risk of destruction.
Nevertheless, even though an assembly of the
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 7, chapter 165 (search)
There is, however, another story told by the Sicilians: even though he was to be under Lacedaemonian authority, Gelon would still have aided the Greeks had it not been for Terillus son of Crinippus, the tyrant of Himera. This man, who had been expelled from Himera by Theron son of Aenesidemus, sovereign ruler of Acragas, at this very time brought against Gelon three hundred thousand Phoenicians, Libyans, Iberians, Ligyes, Elisyci, Sardinians, and Cyrnians,The Carthaginians invaded Sicily with a force drawn from Africa and the western Mediterranean. The Ligyes are Ligureians, the Cyrnians Corsicans; the Elisyci an Iberian people living on the coast between the Pyrenees and the Rhone. According to a statement quoted from the historian Ephorus, this Carthaginian expedition was part of a concerted plan, whereby the Greek world was to be attacked by the Carthaginians in the west and the Persians in the east simultaneously. led by Amilcas son of Annon, the king of the Carchedonians. Terill
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 7, chapter 170 (search)
Now Minos, it is said, went to Sicania, which is now called Sicily, in search for Daedalus, and perished there by a violent death. Presently all the Cretans except the men of Polichne and Praesus were bidden by a god to go with a great host to Sicania. Here they besieged the town of Camicus, where in my day the men of Acragas dwelt, for five years.
Presently, since they could neither take it nor remain there because of the famine which afflicted them, they departed. However, when they were at sea off Iapygia, a great storm caught and drove them ashore. Because their ships had been wrecked and there was no way left of returning to Crete, they founded there the town of Hyria, and made this their dwelling place, accordingly changing from Cretans to Messapians of Iapygia, and from islanders to dwellers on the mainland.
From Hyria they made settlements in those other towns which a very long time afterwards the Tarentines attempted to destroy, thereby suffering great disaster. The result w