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"Where, then, is the Syracusans' love of freedom? Where the deeds of our ancestors? I say nothing of the three hundred thousand Carthaginians who were totally destroyed at Himera1; I pass by the overthrow of the tyrants who followed Gelon.2 But only yesterday, as it were, when the Athenians attacked Syracuse with such great armaments, our fathers left not a man free to carry back word of the disaster.

1 Cp. Book 11.22.

2 Cp. Book 11.67-68.

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