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[5] The whole number of the soldiers with Dion was not less than fifty thousand.1 All of these with garlands on their heads came down to the city under the leadership of Dion and Megacles and with them thirty2 Syracusans who alone of the exiles in the Peloponnese were willing to share the battles with their fellow Syracusans.

1 See Plut. Dion 27.3, who says five thousand, which is undoubtedly too low an estimate as Diodorus' is too high. See Hackforth, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.278.

2 Twenty-five is the number given by Plut. Dion 22.4.

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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