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While these things were going on, in Cyprus Nicocles the eunuch1 assassinated the king Evagoras and possessed himself of the royal power over the Salaminians; and in Italy the Romans, arrayed in battle against the Praenestini,2 defeated them and slew almost all their opponents.

1 Theopompus (fr. 111) says that Evagoras and his son Pnytagoras were murdered by a eunuch Thrasydaeus. Nicocles, the son and successor of Evagoras, probably had no hand in the murder. See also Aristot. Pol. 1311b; Isoc. 2, Isoc. 3 and Isoc. 9.72. Diodorus has abbreviated his source overmuch and made Nicocles the eunuch.

2 See Livy 6.27.9 ff.

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