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Themistocles, the son of Neocles, when a
certain wealthy personEuryptolemus, son of
Megacles. approached him to find out where he could find a wealthy son-in-law, advised
him not to seek for money which lacked a man, but rather a man who was lacking in money. And
when the inquirer agreed with this advice, Themistocles counselled him to marry his daughter to
Cimon. This was the reason, therefore, for Cimon becoming a wealthy man, and he was released
from prison, and calling to account the magistrates who had shut him up he secured their
condemnation.Const. Exc. 4, p. 301.[The preceding Book, which is the tenth of our
narrative, closed with the events of the year481 B.C. just before the crossing of Xerxes into Europe and the formal deliberations which the general assembly
of the Greeks held in Corinth on the alliance
between Gelon and the Greeks.]Diod. Sic. 11.1.1
When all the Greeks, at the time Xerxes was
about to cross over into Europe,480 B.C. dispatched an embassy to Gelon to
discuss an alliance, and when he answered that he would ally himself with them and supply them
with grain, provided that they would grant him the supreme command either on the land or on the
sea, the tyrant's ambition for glory in his demanding the supreme command thwarted the
alliance; and yet the magnitude of the aid he could supply and the fear of the enemy were
impelling them to share the glory with Gelon.See Hdt. 7.157 ff. But Gelon himself was in danger from an attack of the
Carthaginians upon the Greeks of Sicily.
Contents of the Eleventh Book of Diodorus
—On the crossing of Xerxes into Europe
(chaps. 1-4). —On the battle of Thermopylae
(chaps. 5-11). —On the naval battle which Xerxes fought against the Greeks (chaps.
12-13). —How Themistocles outgeneralled Xerxes and the Greeks conquered the
barbarians in the naval battle of Salamis (chaps.
14-18). —How Xerxes, leaving Mardonius behind as commander, withdrew with a portion
of his army to Asia (chap. 19). —How the
Carthaginians with great armaments made war upon Sicily (chaps. 20-21). —How Gelon, after outgeneralling the barbarians,
slew some of them and took others captive (chaps. 22-23). —How Gelon, when the
Carthaginians sued for peace, exacted money of them and then concluded the peace (chaps.
24-26). —Judgement passed on the Greeks who distinguished themselves in the war
(chap. 27). —The battle of the Greeks against Mardonius and the Persians abou
480 B.C.The preceding Book, which is the tenth of our narrative, closed with the events of the
year just before the crossing of Xerxes into Europe
and the formal deliberations which the general assembly of the Greeks held in Corinth on the alliance between Gelon and the Greeks; and in
this Book we shall supply the further course of the history, beginning with the campaign of
Xerxes against the Greeks, and we shall stop with the year which precedes the campaign of the
Athenians against Cyprus under the leadership of
Cimon.That is, the Book covers the years 480-451 B.C.
Calliades was archon in
Athens, and the Romans made Spurius Cassius and
Proculus Verginius Tricostus consuls, and the Eleians celebrated the Seventy-fifth Olympiad,
that in which Astylus of Syracuse won the
"stadion." It was in this year that king Xerxes made his campaign against Greece, for the following reason. Mardonius the Persian was a cousin of Xerxes and rela
Now that we have described at sufficient length the events in Europe, we shall shift our narrative to the affairs of another
people. The Carthaginians, we recall,Cp. chap. 1.
had agreed with the Persians to subdue the Greeks of Sicily at the same time and had made preparations on a large scale of such
materials as would be useful in carrying on a war. And when they had made everything ready,
they chose for general Hamilcar, having selected him as the man who was held by them in the
highest esteem. He assumed command of huge forces, both land
and naval, and sailed forth from Carthage with an
army of not less than three hundred thousand men and a fleet of over two hundred ships of war,
not to mention many cargo ships for carrying supplies, numbering more than three thousand. Now
as he was crossing the Libyan sea he encountered a storm and lost the vessels which were
carrying the horses and chariots. And when he came to port in Sicily in t