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The Syracusans, seeing that Acragas was under siege and fearing lest the besieged might suffer the same fate as befell the Selinuntians and Himeraeans,1 had long been eager to send them their aid, and when at this juncture allied troops arrived from Italy and Messene they elected Daphnaeus2 general.

1 Cp. chaps. 57 and 62 respectively.

2 A Syracusan, later executed by Dionysius (infra, chap. 96.3).

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