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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 11 | 11 | Browse | Search |
| Xenophon, Hellenica (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Aristotle, Politics | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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398 B.C.When this year had come to an end, Ithycles was archon in
Athens and in Rome five military tribunes were established in place of the consuls, Lucius
Julius, Marcus Furius, Marcus Aemilius, Gaius Cornelius, and Caeso Fabius. Dionysius, the
tyrant of the Syracusans, as soon as the major part of the task of making arms and building a
fleet was completed, turned at once to the gathering of soldiers. From the Syracusans he enrolled those who were fit for military service in companies
and from the cities subject to him he summoned their able men. He also gathered mercenaries
from Greece, and especially from the Lacedaemonians, for they, in order to aid him in building
up his power, gave him permission to enlist as many mercenaries from them as he might wish.
And, speaking generally, since he made a point of gathering his mercenary force from many
nations and promised high pay, he found men who were responsive. Since Dionysius was going to