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Since we have finished with the affairs of Macedonia and Illyria, we shall now turn to events of a different kind. In Sicily Dionysius the Younger, tyrant of the Syracusans, who had succeeded to the realm1 in the period preceding this but was indolent and much inferior to his father, pretended because of his lack of enterprise to be peacefully inclined and mild of disposition.2

1 For the succession of Dionysius II see Book 15.74.5.

2 For the character of Dionysius II see Plut. Dion 7.3-4 and Hackforth, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.272-273.

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