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[5] For since his wife, the daughter of Hermocrates, had been slain at the time the cavalry revolted,1 he was eager to beget children, in the belief that the loyalty of his offspring would be the strongest safeguard of his tyrannical power. Nevertheless, when an assembly of the people was held in Rhegium to consider Dionysius' proposal, after much discussion the Rhegians voted not to accept the marriage connection.2

1 Cp. Book 13.112.4.

2 More on the reply in chap. 107.

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