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[2] When I was at odds with the Carchedonians,1 and asked you to be my comrades against a foreign army, and when I desired that you should avenge the slaying of Dorieus2 son of Anaxandrides on the men of Egesta, and when I promised to free those trading ports from which great advantage and profit have accrued to you,—then neither for my sake would you come to aid nor to avenge the slaying of Dorieus. Because of your position in these matters, all these lands lie beneath the foreigners' feet.

1 The Carthaginians were as influential in the west of the island as Gelon in the east; Greeks and Semites continually competed for commercial supremacy.

2 Cp. Hdt. 5.42-46.

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