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In Greece Dorieus the Rhodian, the admiral of the triremes
from Italy, after he had quelled the tumult in
Rhodes,Cp.
chap. 38.5; Thuc. 8.44. set sail for the Hellespont, being eager to join Mindarus; for the latter was
lying at Abydus and collecting from every quarter the
ships of the Peloponnesian alliance. And when Dorieus was
already in the neighbourhood of Sigeium in the Troad,
the Athenians who were at Sestus, learning that he was sailing along the coast, put out against
him with their ships, seventy-four in all. Dorieus held to his
course for a time in ignorance of what was happening; but when he observed the great strength
of the fleet he was alarmed, and seeing no other way to save his force he put in at Dardanus.
Here he disembarked his soldiers and took over the troops who
were guarding the city, and then he speedily got in a vast supply of missiles and stationed his
soldiers both on the fore-parts of the sh
When news of the reinforcements which Hannibal was bringing was noised throughout
Sicily, everyone expected that his armaments would
also be brought over at once. And the cities, as they heard of the great scale of the
preparations and came to the conclusion that the struggle was to be for their very existence,
were distressed without measure. Accordingly the Syracusans
set about negotiating alliances both with the Greeks of Italy and with the Lacedaemonians; and they also continued to dispatch emissaries
to the cities of Sicily to arouse the masses to fight
for the common freedom. The Acragantini, because they were the
nearest to the empire of the Carthaginians, assumed what indeed took place, that the weight of
the war would fall on them first. They decided, therefore, to gather not only their grain and
other crops but also all their possessions from the countryside within their walls. At this time, it so happened, both the city and
Since Himilcar, after besieging the city for eight months, had taken it
shortly before the winter solstice,December 22. he
did not destroy it at once, in order that his forces might winter in the dwellings. But when
the misfortune that had befallen Acragas was noised
abroad, such fear took possession of the island that of the Sicilian Greeks some removed to
Syracuse and others transferred their children
and wives and all their possessions to Italy.
The Acragantini who had escaped being taken captive, when
they arrived in Syracuse, lodged accusations
against their generals, asserting that it was due to their treachery that their country had
perished. And it so happened that the Syracusans also came in for censure by the rest of the
Sicilian Greeks, because, as they charged, they elected the kind of leaders through whose fault
the whole of Sicily ran the risk of destruction.
Nevertheless, even though an assembly of the
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 24 (search)
They say that this Arion, who spent most of his time with Periander, wished to sail to Italy and Sicily, and that after he had made a lot of money there he wanted to come back to Corinth.
Trusting none more than the Corinthians, he hired a CorinthiItaly and Sicily, and that after he had made a lot of money there he wanted to come back to Corinth.
Trusting none more than the Corinthians, he hired a Corinthian vessel to carry him from Tarentum.Terentum But when they were out at sea, the crew plotted to take Arion's money and cast him overboard. Discovering this, he earnestly entreated them, asking for his life and offering them his money.
But the crew
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 94 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 145 (search)
As for the Ionians, the reason why they made twelve cities and would admit no more was in my judgment this: there were twelve divisions of them when they dwelt in the Peloponnese, just as there are twelve divisions of the Achaeans who drove the Ionians out—Pellene nearest to Sicyon; then Aegira and Aegae, where is the never-failing river Crathis, from which the river in Italy took its name; Bura and Helice, where the Ionians fled when they were worsted in battle by the Achaeans; Aegion; Rhype; Patrae; Phareae; and Olenus, where is the great river Pirus; Dyme and Tritaeae, the only inland city of all these—these were the twelve divisions of the Ionians, as they are now of the Achaean
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 167 (search)