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[2] With this programme in mind, he formed relations of friendship with the Himeraeans and the dwellers in the fort of Cephaloedium,1 and seizing the city of Lipara, he exacted thirty talents from the inhabitants of the island.2 Then he set out in person with his entire army toward Messene, his ships sailing along the coast beside him.

1 Some fifteen miles east of Himera.

2 On Lipara see Book 5.10.

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