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Now these, we may say, were the events of this year. And of the historians Philistus1 ended his first History of Sicily with this year and the capture of Acragas, treating a period of more than eight hundred years in seven Books, and he began his second History where the first leaves off and wrote four Books.2

1 Of Syracuse (cp. supra, chap. 91.4).

2 Philistus also wrote two more Books on the younger Dionysius (cp. Book 15.89.3), a total of thirteen Books on Sicily.

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