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So, having established peaceful conditions everywhere throughout Sicily, he caused the
cities to experience a vast growth of prosperity.Nepos Timoleon 3.1-2. These observations are probably Diodorus's
own, based on his personal experience and knowledge. Note the reference to his city, Agyrium,
in chap. 83.3. Kokalos, 4 (1958) is devoted
exclusively to articles concerned with the effect of Timoleon on Sicily. For many
years, because of domestic troubles and border wars, and still more because of the numbers of
tyrants who kept constantly appearing, the cities had become destitute of inhabitants and the
open country had become a wilderness for lack of cultivation, producing no useful crops. But
now new settlers streamed into the land in great numbers, and as a long period of peace set in,
the fields were reclaimed for cultivation and bore abundant crops of all sorts. These the
Siceliot Greeks sold to merchants at good prices and rapidl