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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have been in alliance with him ;but no barbarian ever treated a city of enemies worsethan Agathokles, in his wrath and disappointment,treated his friends. He demanded a great contribu-tion, and when the people of Segesta were loath topay it, he charged them with plotting against him.On this ground he slew the great mass of the people,save only the boys and maidens, whom he sold to theBruttians, in Italy. And he not only slew, but, whatthe worst Greeks seldom did, he put to death bytorture. He is said to have revived the old device ofPhalaris; only, instead of a brazen bull, it was abrazen bed, on which he could not only hear but seethe sufferings of the victims. Then, having emptiedthe town of its old inhabitants, he peopled it afreshwith a mixed multitude, and gave it the new name ofDikaiopolis—City of Righteousness. But the nameof Segesta soon came back, and the new inhabitantstook up the old Trojan tradition. But the city neverwas what it had been before ; the great temple, which
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254 ^^^ TYRANNY OF AGATHOKLES. must have been in-building when Agathokles came,is still unfinished. It seems to have been while Agathokles was atSegesta that he heard the news from Africa, themurder of his sons and the rest. In his wrath he sentorders to his brother Antandros, who commanded forhim at Syracuse, to put to death all the kinsfolk,young and old, of the men who had served with himin Africa. And the thing was done. It is wonderfulthat the man who did such deeds as these two lastwas allowed to live for seventeen years longer, andthen did not die in any public outbreak. The most wonderful thing in the life of Agathoklesis the strange course of ups and downs that he wentthrough. When his power seemed on the point ofwholly passing away, it rose up again higher thanbefore. It was so when, just after his great defeat inSicily, he went on his expedition to Africa ; it is sonow that he has come back defeated from Africa tofind stronger enemies in Sicily than ever. A greatpart of Gre

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