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man, and bearing as striking evidence the person of
the late tyrant of Sicily. Only fifty days had passed
since he left their city with his thousand men, and
already he had this extraordinary prize to show. At
once they voted him a reinforcement of two thou-
sand hoplites and five hundred cavalry, and willingly
granted the dethroned king a safe residence in their
city. In after years, so report says, Dionysius opened
a school there for teaching boys to read, and in-
structed the public singers in their art. Certainly
this was an innocent use to put a tyrant to.

Ortygia contained a garrison of two thousand
soldiers and vast quantities of military stores. ‘Timo-
leon, after taking possession, returned to Adranum,
leaving his lieutenant Neon in command. Soon
after—Hicetas having left Syracuse for the purpose
of cutting off Neon’s source of provisions—a sudden
sally was made, the blockading army taken by sur-
prise and driven back with loss, and another large
section of the city was added to Timoleon’s gains.

This success was quickly followed by another.
The reinforcement from Corinth had landed at
Thurii, on the east coast of Italy. The Carthaginian
admiral, thinking that they could not easily get
away from that place, sailed to Ortygia, where
he displayed Grecian shields and had his seamen
crowned with wreaths. He fancied that by these
signs of victory he would frighten the garrison into
Raerender, But the garrison were not so easily
scared; and meanwhile the Corinthian troops, tired
of Thurii, and not able to get away by sea, had left:
their ships and marched rapidly overland to the