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Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.), line 343 (search)
Hieron removed the people of NaxosThe city north of
Syracuse on the coast. and Catana from their cities and sent there settlers of his own
choosing, having gathered five thousand from the Peloponnesus and added an equal number of others from Syracuse; and the name of Catana he changed to Aetna, and not only
the territory of Catana but also much neighbouring
land which he added to it he portioned out in allotments, up to the full sum of ten thousand
settlers. This he did out of a desire, not only that he might
have a substantial help ready at hand for any need that might arise, but also that from the
recently founded state of ten thousand men he might receive the honours accorded to heroes. And
the Naxians and Catanians whom he had removed from their native states he transferred to
Leontini and commanded them to make their homes in that city along with the native population.
And Theron, seeing that after the slaughter of the Himerans
451 B.C.When Antidotus was archon in Athens, the
Romans elected as consuls Lucius Postumius and Marcus Horatius. During this year Ducetius, who
held the leadership of the Siceli, seized the city of Aetna, having treacherously slain its leader, and then he moved with an army into
the territory of the Acragantini and laid siege to Motyum, which was held by a garrison of
Acragantini; and when the Acragantini and the Syracusans came to the aid of the city, he joined
battle with them, was successful, and drove them both out of their camps. But since at the time winter was setting in, they separated and returned
to their homes; and the Syracusans found their general Bolcon, who was responsible for the
defeat and was thought to have had secret dealings with Ducetius, guilty of treason and put him
to death. With the beginning of summer they appointed a new general, to whom they assigned a
strong army with orders to subdue Ducetius. This general,