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Finally, being unable to shake the fortitude of the man, they stabbed
him to death that they might in this way break the hold of his teeth. By this device Zeno got
release from the agonies he was suffering and exacted of the tyrant the only punishment within
his grasp.Const. Exc. 2 (1), pp. 225-226.[Many generations later Dorieus1 the
Lacedaemonian came to Sicily, and taking back the land
founded the city of Heracleia.2 Since the city grew rapidly, the Carthaginians, being jealous
of it and also afraid that it would grow stronger than Carthage and take from the Phoenicians their sovereignty, came up against it with
a great army, took it by storm, and razed it to the ground. But this affair we shall discuss in
detail in connection with the period in which it falls.]Diod.
4.23.3.
1 c. 510 B.C. An account of the chequered career of Dorieus, of the royal line of Sparta, is given by Hdt. 5.41-48.
2 On the south coast of Sicily near Agrigentum.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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