These men at Syracuse eight times were triumphant as victors;1
Heroes they were while the gods favoured both causes alike.
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Euripides, after their defeat and destruction, composed an epitaph for them, in which he said:—
1 Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graeci, ii (4) p. 265.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
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