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[3] Now Dionysius straightway married the daughter of Hermocrates, the conqueror of the Athenians,1 and gave his sister in marriage to Polyxenus, the brother of Hermocrates' wife. This he did out of a desire to draw a distinguished house into relationship with him in order to make firm the tyranny. After this he summoned an assembly and had his most influential opponents, Daphnaeus and Demarchus, put to death.

1 Cp. chaps. 18.3; 34.4.

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