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Show -_ Theft BeakesfehesicfipertCuaviSubp afterDionyfas hisFather,theoTtaliew:Burcheir malice; of whomlicehadbeft-deleruédy and whom hee had foued moft, ganean cer dito hisidayes.b For hee wasifvone afterthis his viGtorie, murdered byrGy/yppas who; after hee liad; withiith firoceffe, awhile gotierned Syracufe, was flaine with thefadie! Dagger, with! which -heo had vnuirdered Dion. ; l. ml 9i lk NiGe) sitet Ten yeares after thedeatlnof Dion ;Daonyfins; withthe affi tance of his friends in: Teas ly, recouershis eftate, and returnes to Syracu fe, driving Ny/eus thence, whomhe'found Goue rnourtherein.: The better {ort ofthe Cirizens, fearing, mote thaneuer; hiscrtielty flee to Zectesja Sytacufiawborneyandthen ruling tbe Leontines.:zcetes entersiintorconfe. deracié withthe Gaithaginians; hoping by: their aflitance, not oncly ito preiiailt:dpaink 4 Dionyfias, butbythe hatredoftheSyracnfians towards!Dionyfinssro make him alfo Lord of their Cities.Bhe Syracufians, beingdefernedly afliGted onalfides} {ehdro-the:Co. rinthians forficcour.: /ceres alfo fendsithither; and diffwades the Gorinthians;iaswellas he can; fronmintermedling inthe bufineflei He tellsthem,by his méflengersTFharhe had entted ihtodeague with the Carthaginians, who were fo ftrong by Sea;ichar inwas not‘in theipowver'of-Gorinth,toland any Armie in Sici].Buethe Corinchians,being bythistrea. fon of zeetesymoreinraged than diffwaded,fenvT¥mvleon with'ninercene' Galliéspto de» liver Syracufe from tyrannie. Inthe meane while, zcetes had enityed:Syracufey.dndwith the helpeofithe Carthaginians, driuen Didnyfias intgrhé Cattle; where he befi¢ged bith, Jcetes, being himfelfeaTyranvin Leontium,rather! fought howitocnlargehis:power, than how. todeliuer his Counttie.. Therefore, hoating that ‘Telcom: was. arciued a" Rhegium,he fentto perfwade him,to returne‘his fleet yforthat allthings were inefha) eftablifhed in Sicil. The Carthaginian Gallies were alfo in the {ame Port of Riiegium: whofe Captaines aduifed Timeleon,togevhim gone in peace. They hadfarremoje Gallies there, than he had, and were like to.compell himiifhe would not be perfiwaded:T mleon, findinghimfelfe ouer-maftered} makes tequeft:to the Carthaginian' Capraines, that they would be pleafed torenter intoRhegium, and'there, inamopen aflemblyofithe people, todeliuer vito him thofearguments, for his returne, which they had vfedtohim 2 -- ; thathee might, by publique-teftimonie, difcharge' himfelfe to th Senate of orinth. id 30 The Carthaginians, perfwading themf{eluesthat a viGoric, obtained by afew: faite ; words; was withoutlofle, and farre more eafie}than that of many blowes and wounds, yeclded to Timolcons defire. But while the Orations were delivering, Timeleon;: fanoured bythe Rhegians, ftole out of the preaffe ; atid hauing fet faile,beforethe Gates wereopt ned to the Carthaginians,he recouered the Port of Tautomenium; where he wasioyfulé ly teceiued by Aadromachus the Gouernour:-From thence he marchédtoward Adtanum, where furprifing /eeses his Armic, he flew pare therofjand pur the reft to.run: Ieisthene ture of victorie to begetfriends. The Adranitans ioyned with him;and fo did atamerctsy the TyrantofCatana. Dionyfins alfo fent to Timoleon, offering to{urrénder'the\Caltle of Syracufe into his hands,as thinkingit bettet roryeeld vphimé€lfe; ‘and the places which 4° hecould not defend, vntothe Corinthians;than eithervodcctes;, whombhe difdained;oF tothe Carthaginians, whom*he hated Now Timo/eoas who within fiftie dayes, afterhis arriuall, had recouctedtheCaftle of Syracufe , and {ent Diosyfius to Corinth, t0 live 289 . being fiighted out of Sicil (which he mighteafily hane- conquered) ‘withan idle rumour oftreafons This made him returne to Carthage ; wherethe gencrallexclamation againft his:cowardize, did fo much affright him,thatfor feare of fatcher punithment, hehineed hinfelfe! T#moleon enters the Citie, and beats downe the Caftle ( whichhe called she nef of Tyrants )tothe ground, But he found the Citie when theftrangers vere fied, inieffe@ defSlate ¥fo as thcir horfes did feed on the grafle, growingin the market-place. Therefore, h¢é wiites to Corinth, for people to re-inhabite ir.) Ten thoufand are fent our 6f Grecce ;tany'corhe frotn Italics others, from other parts of the Hand. Baranew ftormeariferh, 4/drabal and Amilcar,Carthaginians,arriueabout Lilybaum, yo with thréefcore and ten thoufand Souldiers,rran{ported (avithall their prouifions) in a thoufand fhips of burden, and two hundred Galliess .Témeleon' marcheth thither; and chargeth this preat Armie vponthe paffage of a Riuer. Atempeftof‘rainc, hailc,and lightning, with boyftcrous widdes,beating vpon the faees of the Carthaginians, they are vtterly broken ten thoufand flaine, fiue thoufandra- kei); wiclvall their carriages and prouifions : among which chere were found a thonfand corflets,gilrand grauen. After this, Tisolcon gaucan oucrthrow to scetes, and following hisvictorie,tdoke him, with his fon Eupolemus, andthe Generalof his horfe, prifonersg whom he cauifed allto be flaine: and afterwards(which was imputed to him forgreat crueltie) he fiffered scetes his wines & daughters to be put to death. But this was the teuenge 200f Godvpon‘sceres, who (after the murder. of Dion ) had cauled Arete, Dions wife and a yong childe of his, with: Ariftamache his fifter, to be caft into the Sea. Heagaine prevailed again ft Mamercus, Tyrant of Caranasand won Caranait felfe.Mas mercus fledto Hippon Tyrant ofMeffena: but Timo/edn;, purfuing: hirn » Won the rowne ; deliucring Hippon to his Citizens, who tormented himtodeath. The fame end had A4a+ merens,and all other,the Tyrants in Sicil; Finally, he made peace'with the Carthaginians; on ‘condition, ‘That they fhould not palléthe Riuer of Lycus. Arterthis; hee lived in great honour among the Syracufians, tillhis death; and was foleninly buricd by them in themarker-place of ‘their Citic s-the day ofhis Funerals, being foreuer ordained tobe keptholy among them. After fuch time, as Timoleon had deliuered Syracufe, from the tyrannie of Déonyfiss, and brought peace to the wholeIland';' the Inhabitants :cnioyed: their libertie in peace, abouttwentie yeeres, The Cities and Temples were repaired; the Trade renewed; the Merchant failed in fatctie; and the Labouring man enioyedthe fruits ofthe earth in quiet. Butit was impoffible thara Nation which neither knewhowto gouerne, nor how ro oY3Which could neither endure Kings, nor men worthy tobe Kings; to gouernethiem ; ouldany long time fubfift. Twentieyeeres after the death of Timleon; there ftarted vp one -4gathecles, among them, aman of bafe birth, and of bafer condition; whofroma Beggar, toa common o Souldicr; fromaSouldicr toa Captaine; and fo from degree to degree,rifingtobeea Pretor; finally, becante Lordand Soueraigne of the Sytacufians., Many fortunes hee Tan, and vnder-wentas many dangers, erchee obtained the Principalitie. For hee had Motethan once attemptedit, and was thefeinboth beaten and banitht. A pafling valiant man he was,and did notable feruice, as well for thofe by whomhe was employed; ag there apiiuate man;was {till inuaded bythe Armiessand:miolefted bythe practices of alo for the Syracufians, and againft hent. For in their warres againft thofe of Enna; and vaine ) the murderof Timoleon. ! The Corinthians fend vnto Timeleon a fupply of itwo thoufand foor,andtwo hundred lice for the Murgantines,againft the Syracufians. Forbeing entertained by the peopleof ses. For he befieged the Corinthians within the Caftle ofSyracufe,and arcempted(buris horfe, which areftaidin Italieby foule weather. :seetes is ftrengthned with threefcore thoufand Afticans,broughtvnto him by Atago(all whichhe lodgeth within Syraculeam with an hundredandfiftie Gallies, to keepe the Port. This was the firft rime,that ewer 50 the Campanes, he did them memorable feruice :and on the contrary,as memorable: fers Urgantia; and made Gencrall of their forces,he fackt Leontium sand belieged Syracufe Oftteightly, thar the Citizens were driven to craue aide, evenfrom their ancient and na+ 59 turallenemies,the Carthaginians. Amilcar was fent by the Carthaginians, to,relieue Sy- racufe. With him Agathocles wrought fowell,that hee got him to make peace berweene mfelfeand the Syracufians ; binding himflfe by promife and oath, toremaine a friend Carthaginians had dominion wichin the:swalls of that Citic. With this great Ants Jcetes affaulteth the Cattle, Timoleon fends thetn vi@ials,and fuccour, in {mall boatsbY night,from Catana, MagoandIcetes doetherefore refolue to befiege «Carana's but ¢ " and feruant to the State of Carthage, foreuer afters ea ete way towardsit, with part of their forces;than sooner4 ¢ Corinthians, fallied ourof-the Caftle,and tooke th f Sytacufe,calie of the Murgantines,vnder colour of ‘a purpofe to befiege Herbita, na,which he fortified. _ CadenS.g.t4.oftheHilleroftheWorld, Sebi cadichadscisine Jasthailet ne Inthe meane while, the two thoufand' Corinthiahs arrive :cwith whom, thoufand other Souldiers,Timoleon marcheth towardsSyrachfe.Majsabandoseth _ Amilcar corcrtained the bafinelle; and compounded the quarrels betweene Agathocles, and the Syracufiantsé:nAgathes tis chofen Pretor; heentertaines fiue thoufand Afticans, and diucrsiold Souldiers Warh thefe, and With the afhftance of the:poore and difcontented Syracufiahs ( the Citie alfor being idie Rided into many factions): hee affailesthe Senatots, killsall his cnemics and oppotixes 3 diuides Mmmm 3 |