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[5] From this as his base Dionysius . . .1 Since he had the leisure, he built dockyards with a capacity for two hundred triremes and threw about the city a wall of such size that its circuit was the greatest possessed by any Greek city. He also constructed large gymnasia along the Anapus River,2 and likewise temples of the gods and whatever else would contribute to the growth and renown of the city.

1 There is a lacuna here that must be of some length, since the following statements apply, not to Lissus, but to Syracuse.

2 This flowed into the Great Harbour of Syracuse.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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