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[3] He who had possessed four hundred triremes1 arrived shortly after in Corinth in a small tub of a freighter,2 conspicuously displaying the enormity of the change in his fortunes.

1 The same figure in chap. 9.2; Plut. Dion 14.2. Nepos Dion 5.3, mentions five hundred.

2 This term is traceable to Theopompus (Polybius 12.4a. 2; Jacoby, Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, no. 115, F 341), where Timaeus used ναῦς.

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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