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When Cephisodotus was archon at Athens, the Romans elected as consuls Gaius Licinius and Gaius Sulpicius. During their term of office Dion, son of Hipparinus and the most distinguished of the Syracusans, escaped from Sicily1 and by his nobility of spirit set free the Syracusans and the other Sicilian Greeks in the following manner.

1 According to Plut. Dion 14.5, Dion was placed on a boat by Dionysius and sent to Italy (Nepos says to Corinth, Nepos Dion 3 f.). This must have happened considerably earlier as Plat. L. 7.329c) says that it happened three months after his arrival in 367. Diodorus has evidently compressed the earlier details into this year.

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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