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Hermocrates,1 the Syracusan, taking his soldiers set out from Selinus, and on arriving at Himera he pitched camp in the suburbs of the city, which lay in ruins. And finding out the place where the Syracusans had made their stand, he collected the bones of the dead2 and putting them upon wagons which he had constructed and embellished at great cost he conveyed them to Syracuse.

1 The narrative is resumed from the end of chap. 63.

2 Cp. chap. 61.6.

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