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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 Lacedaemonians,1 he was overpowered by his political opponents and, upon being condemned to exile, he handed over the fleet in the Peloponnesus2 to the men who had been dispatched to succeed him.

1 Cp. chap. 34.4.

2 Xen. Hell. 1.1.31 states that the new commanders took over the Syracusan ships and troops at Miletus.

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