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The sculptor Perilaus made a brazen bull for
Phalaris the tyrantOf Acragas, c. 570-c. 554 B.C. to use in punishing
his own people, but he was himself the first to make trial of that terrible form of punishment.
For, in general, those who plan an evil thing aimed at others are usually snared in their own
devices.Const. Exc. 4, p. 286.
The Syracusans at the outset seized a part of the city which
is called Tyche,This section adjoined Achradine on the
west. and operating from there they dispatched ambassadors to Gela, Acragas, and
Selinus, and also to Himera and the cities of the
Siceli in the interior of the island, asking them to come together with all speed and join with
them in liberating Syracuse. And since all these cities acceded to this request eagerly and hurriedly
dispatched aid, some of them infantry and cavalry and others warships fully equipped for
action, in a brief time there was collected a considerable armament with which to aid the
Syracusans. Consequently the Syracusans, having made ready their ships and drawn up their army
for battle, demonstrated that they were ready to fight to a finish both on land and on sea.
Now Thrasybulus, abandoned as he was by his allies and basing
his hopes only upon the mercenaries, was master only of Achradine an
416 B.C.In the sixteenth year of the War
Arimnestus was archon among the Athenians, and in Rome in place of consuls four military tribunes were elected, Titus Claudius,
Spurius Nautius, Lucius Sentius, and Sextus Julius. And in this year among the Eleians the
Ninety-first Olympiad was celebrated, that in which Exaenetus of Acragas won the "stadion." The Byzantines and
Chalcedonians, accompanied by Thracians, made war in great force against Bithynia, plundered the land, reduced by siege many of the small
settlements, and performed deeds of exceeding cruelty; for of the many prisoners they took,
both men and women and children, they put all to the sword. About the same time in Sicily war broke out between the Egestaeans and the Selinuntians from a difference
over territory, where a river divided the lands of the quarrelling cities. The Selinuntians, crossing the stream, at first seized by force the land
along the river, but later they cut off for
412 B.C.When Callias was archon in Athens, the Romans elected in place of consuls four military
tribunes, Publius Cornelius . . . Gaius Fabius, and among the Eleians the Ninety-second
Olympiad was celebrated, that in which Exaenetus of Acragas won the "stadion." In this year it came to pass that, after the Athenians
had collapsed in Sicily, their supremacy was held in
contempt; for immediately the peoples of Chios, Samos,
Byzantium, and many of the allies revolted to
the Lacedaemonians. Consequently the Athenian people, being disheartened, of their own accord
renounced the democracy, and choosing four hundred men they turned over to them the
administration of the state. And the leaders of the oligarchy, after building a number of
triremes, sent out forty of them together with generals.Diodorus is most sketchy at this point and in the repetitive passage in chap. 36. A
Peloponnesian fleet had been lying off Salamis,
possibly hopi