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Hermocrates the Syracusan arrived in Sicily. This man, who had served as general in the war against
the Athenians and had been of great service to his country, had acquired the greatest influence
among the Syracusans, but afterwards, when he had been sent as admiral in command of
thirty-five triremes to support the bout a part of the city and called to him from all
quarters the Selinuntians who were still alive.Hermocrates is carrying on his own war against that part of Sicily held by the Carthaginians.
He also received many others into the place and thus gathered
a force of six thousand picked warriors. Making Selinus his bas it was evident that the people
desired to receive the man back from exile, and Hermocrates, on hearing of the talk about
himself that was current in Syracuse, laid
careful plans regarding his return from exile, knowing that his political opponents would work
against it.Such was the course of events in Sicily.
While these events were taking place, the Megarians seized Nisaea, which was in the hands of Athenians, and the
Athenians dispatched against them Leotrophides and Timarchus with a thousand infantry and four
hundred cavalry. The Megarians went out to meet them en masse under arms, and
after adding to their number some of the troops from Sicily they drew up for battle near the hills called "The Cerata.""The Horns," lying opposite Salamis on the border between Attica
and Megara (cp. Strabo
9.1.11).
Since the Athenians fought brilliantly and put to flight the
enemy, who greatly outnumbered them, many of the Megarians were slain but only twenty
LacedaemoniansPerhaps here and just below "Sicilian
Greeks" should be read for "Lacedaemonians," since the latter have not been mentioned as being
present.; for the Athenians, made angry by the seizure of Nisaea, did not pursue the Lacedaemonians but slew great
numbers of the Megarians with
When news of the reinforcements which Hannibal was bringing was noised throughout
Sicily, everyone expected that his armaments would
also be brought over at once. And the cities, as they heard of the great scale of the
preparations and came to the conclusion that the struggle was to be for their very existence,
were distressed without measure. Accordingly the Syracusans
set about negotiating alliances both with the Greeks of Italy and with the Lacedaemonians; and they also continued to dispatch emissaries
to the cities of Sicily to arouse the masses to fight
for the common freedom. The Acragantini, because they were the
nearest to the empire of the Carthaginians, assumed what indeed took place, that the weight of
the war would fall on them first. They decided, therefore, to gather not only their grain and
other crops but also all their possessions from the countryside within their walls. At this time, it so happened, both the city and
The Carthaginians, after transporting their armaments to Sicily, marched against the city of the Acragantini and made two
encampments, one on certain hills where they stationed the Iberians and some Libyans to the
number of about forty thousand, and the other they pitched not far from the city and surrounded
it with a deep trench and a palisade. And first they
dispatched ambassadors to the Acragantini, asking them, preferably, to become their allies, but
otherwise to stay neutral and be friends with the Carthaginians, thereby remaining in peace;
and when the inhabitants of the city would not entertain these terms, the siege was begun at
once. The Acragantini thereupon armed all those of military
age, and forming them in battle order they stationed one group upon the walls and the other as
a reserve to replace the soldiers as they became worn out. Fighting with them was also Dexippus
the Lacedaemonian, who had lately arrived there from G