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Contents of the Sixteenth Book of Diodorus
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While these things were
going on, Andromachus of Tauromenium,1 who was the father of Timaeus,
the author of the Histories, and distinguished for his wealth and nobility of spirit, gathered
together the men who had survived the razing of Naxos by Dionysius. Having settled the hill
above Naxos called Tauros and remained there a considerable time, he called it Tauromenium from
his "remaining on Tauros."2 And as the city made quick progress, the inhabitants
laid up great wealth, and the city, which had won considerable repute, finally in our own
lifetime, after Caesar3 had
expelled the inhabitants of Tauromenium from their native land, received a colony of Roman
citizens.
1 See chap. 68.8 and Plut. Timoleon 10.4.
2 For a different story see Book 14.59.2. Naxos (three miles from Tauromenium) was destroyed by Dionysius in 403 (Book 14.15.2) and its territory assigned to neighbouring Siculi (ibid. 3). These occupied the hill of Taurus to the north of Naxos and gave it the name Tauromenium. The Siculi in 394 warded off a surprise winter attack of Dionysius (Book 14.87-88). By the peace of 392 Dionysius regained Tauromenium, expelled the Siculi, and settled his mercenaries on the spot (Book 14.96.4). Probably this present settlement by Andromachus is to be regarded as a new foundation. See Wesseling's note on Book 14.59.
3 Since Tauromenium had been a stronghold of Sextus Pompey, Augustus, as a precautionary measure and because of its strong position commanding the coast road between Syracuse and Messene, expelled the former inhabitants to make room for new colonists. It may have been one of the Sicilian cities colonized by Augustus in Dio Cassius, 54.7.1 (21 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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