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“Most of the Syracusans were incensed by the contumely of the tyrants. For even Mamercus, who plumed himself on the poems and tragedies he wrote, when he defeated the mercenaries boasted of it, and when he dedicated their shields to the Gods, inscribed upon them the following insulting couplet:

These purple-painted shields of gold and ivory and electrum we took with little shields that cost us cheap.

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” Plutarch Life of Timoleon:
Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 2.

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