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343/2 B.C.When Pythodotus was archon at Athens, the Romans elected as
consuls Gaius Plautius and Titus Manlius.Pythodotus was
archon at Athens from July 343 to June 342 B.C. C. Plautius Venno
and T. Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus were the consuls of 347 B.C.
(Broughton, 1.130). In this yearPlut. Timoleon 13.2-5. Timoleon frightened the tyrant
Dionysius into surrendering the citadel, resigning his office and retiring under a safe-conduct
to the Peloponnese, but retaining his private possessions. Thus, through cowardice and meanness, he lost that celebrated tyranny which had been, as
people said, bound with fetters of steel,This was an
oft-quoted metaphor credited to the elder Dionysius; cp. above, chap. 5.4; Plut. Dion 7.3 and Plut. Dion
10.3. and spent the remaining years of his life in poverty at Corinth, furnishing
in his life and misfortune an example to all who vaunt themselves unwisely on their successes.
He who had posses
339/8 B.C.At the end of this year, Lysimachides became archon at Athens, and in Rome there were elected
as consuls Quintus Servilius and Marcus Rutilius.Lysimachides was archon at Athens from July 339 to June 338 B.C.
The consuls of 342 B.C. were Q. Servilius Ahala and C. Marcius
Rutilus (Broughton, 1.133). In this year, Timoleon returned to Syracuse and promptly
expelled from the city as traitors all the mercenaries who had abandoned him under the
leadership of Thrasius. These crossed over into Italy, and
coming upon a coastal town in Bruttium, sacked it. The Bruttians, incensed, immediately marched
against them with a large army, stormed the place, and shot them all down with javelins.Plut. Timoleon 30.1-2. Another
group of the impious mercenaries is mentioned also in 30.4. Those who had abandoned
Timoleon were rewarded by such misfortune for their own wickedness. Timoleon himself seized and put to death Postumius the
Etruscan,Th