Identifier: sicilyphoenician00free (find matches)
Title: Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Freeman, Edward Augustus, 1823-1892
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Publisher: London : Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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t waiting for ananswer, he gave leave to the Syracusans to plunderthe rich houses and stores of the Carthaginian mer-chants who were living at Syracuse. We see by this,as by some cases of intermarriage, that there was agood deal of intercourse between the Greek and thePhoenician city when they were not at war. And inthe other Greek towns which were under Carthaginiandominion or supremacy, the people rose and put todeath all the Carthaginians among them with insultand torture. Though a tyrant was at the head, it wasa general rising of the Greeks of Sicily against bar-barian enemies and masters. And now the first Punic war of Dionysios beganin the year B.C. 397. How and where to begin hehad learned from his old captain Hermokrates. Hecarried the war at once into the Phoenician corner ofSicily. Never had any such force gone forth from anyGreek city. When the lord of Syracuse made war,it was as if Athens had sent forth her fleet, and thePeloponnesian alliance its arm\, on the same errand.
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AriAKENT ARCH IN THE WALL OF ERYX. i68 TUB TYRANNY OF DIONYSIOS. With 80,000 foot and 3,000 horse, Dionysios marchedalong the south coast, while 200 ships sailed alongin concert. The Greek towns on the road, which hadjust risen against the Punic yoke, added such forcesas they could. He crossed the stream of Mazaros ;then, finding that the Elymians of Eryx were readyto revolt against their Carthaginian masters, hemarched thither and received them as allies. Thenhe began the great undertaking of this war, the siegeof Motya. Motya, on the western side of Sicily, was, like hisown Ortygia on the eastern side, an island joined tc

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