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These aliens resented
their being excluded from the dignity attending magistracies and with one accord revolted from
the Syracusans, and they seized in the city both Achradine and the Island, both these places
having their own well-built fortifications.
[2]
The Syracusans,
who were again plunged into disorder, held possession of the rest of the city; and that part of
it which faced Epipolae they blocked off by a wall and made their own position very secure; for
they at once easily cut off the rebels from access to the countryside and soon caused them to
be in want of provisions.
[3]
But though in number the mercenaries
were inferior to the Syracusans, yet in experience of warfare they were far superior;
consequently, when attacks took place here and there throughout the city and isolated
encounters, the mercenaries regularly had the upper hand in the combats, but since they were
shut off from the countryside, they were in want of equipment and short of food.Such were the events in Sicily of
this year.
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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