Ancient Greece : a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1915)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · London : G. G. Harrap · leaf 554
blockaded Acragas. A pestilencebroke out among his troops and he himself died. After eightmonths the besieged sallied forth at night, leaving sick andaged behind, and reached Gela in safety. Himilco, Hannibalssuccessor, massacred the abandoned Acragantines and sackedthe place. (But the gigantic… … IT5- TiiK Apollo Sauroctonos ov Pkaxiteles 404 SPAPvTA AND THEBES chief cities of the Roman province of Sicily.) In 405 Gelawas taken by Himilco, in spite of the assistance of Syracuse,or possibly with the connivance of the tyrant of Syracuse,Dionysius. This Dionysius, a man of obscure origin, who…
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