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[2] There was no freeman, no slave, no stranger who did not hasten to gaze upon Dion, and all applauded the man's valour in terms too exalted for a mere mortal.1 And they had good reason for such feelings because of the magnitude and unexpected nature of the change; for after having experienced fifty years2 of slavery and forgotten the meaning of freedom through the lapse of time, they were suddenly released from their misfortune by the valour of a single man.

1 ὥσπερ ἱεράν τινα καὶ θεοπρεπῆ πομπήν (Plut. Dion 28.3) and προστρεπομένων ὥσπερ θεὸν κατευχαῖς (Plut. Dion 29.1).

2 Forty-eight in Plut. Dion 28.3, 405-357 B.C.

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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