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4.
About the same time Phaeax, son of
Erasistratus, set sail with two colleagues as ambassador from Athens to
Italy and Sicily.
[2]
The Leontines, upon the departure of the Athenians from Sicily after the
pacification, had placed a number of new citizens upon the roll, and the
commons had a design for redividing the land; but the upper classes, aware of their intention, called in the Syracusans
and expelled the commons.
[3]
These last were scattered in various directions; but the upper classes came to an agreement with the Syracusans, abandoned
and laid waste their city, and went and lived at Syracuse, where they were
made citizens.
[4]
Afterwards some of them were dissatisfied, and leaving Syracuse occupied
Phocaeae, a quarter of the town of Leontini, and Bricinniae, a strong place
in the Leontine country, and being there joined by most of the exiled
commons carried on war from the fortifications.
[5]
The Athenians hearing this, sent Phaeax to see if they could not by some
means so convince their allies there and the rest of the Sicilians of the
ambitious designs of Syracuse, as to induce them to form a general coalition
against her, and thus save the commons of Leontini.
[6]
Arrived in Sicily, Phaeax succeeded at Camarina and Agrigentum, but meeting
with a repulse at Gela did not go on to the rest, as he saw that he should
not succeed with them, but returned through the country of the Sicels to
Catana, and after visiting Bricinniae as he passed, and encouraging its
inhabitants, sailed back to Athens.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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