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Contents of the Sixteenth Book of Diodorus
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1When Sosigenes was archon at Athens, the Romans elected as consuls Marcus Valerius and Marcus
Gnaeus Publius.2 In this year,
Arymbas king of the Molossians died after a rule of ten years,3 leaving a son Aeacides, Pyrrhus's father, but
Alexander the brother of Olympias succeeded to the throne with the backing of Philip of
Macedon.
[2]
In Sicily, Timoleon
made an expedition against Leontini, for this was the city where Hicetas had taken refuge with
a substantial army.4 He launched an assault on the part
called Neapolis, but since the soldiers in the city were numerous and had an advantage in
fighting from the walls, he accomplished nothing and broke off the siege.
[3]
Passing on to the city Engyum, which was controlled by the tyrant
Leptines,5
he assailed it with repeated attacks in the hope of expelling Leptines and restoring to the
city its freedom.
[4]
Taking advantage of his preoccupation,
Hicetas led out his entire force and attempted to lay siege to Syracuse, but lost many of his
men and hastily retreated back to Leontini.
[5]
Leptines was
frightened into submission, and Timoleon shipped him off to the Peloponnese under a
safe-conduct, giving the Greeks tangible evidence of the results of his programme of defeating
and expelling tyrants.The city of Apollonia has also been under
Leptines. On taking it, Timoleon restored its autonomy as well as that of the city of Engyum.
1 342/1 B.C.
2 Sosigenes was archon at Athens from July 342 to June 341 B.C. The consuls of 346 B.C. were M. Valerius Corvus and C. Poetelius Libo Visolus (Broughton, 1.131).
3 His accession is not mentioned by Diodorus under the year 351/0 B.C. Alexander's accession is otherwise known from Dem. 7.32.
4 Continued from chap. 70. Cp. Plut. Timoleon 24.1-2.
5 Probably the Leptines mentioned in chap. 45.9, and probably the nephew of the elder Dionysius (T. Lenschau, Real-Encyclopädie, 12 (1925), 2073).
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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- Harper's, Epīrus
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), APOLLO´NIA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ENGUIUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), EPEIRUS
- Smith's Bio, Alexander I. or Alexander of Epirus
- Smith's Bio, A'RRIBAS, A'RRYBAS, ARYMBAS
- Smith's Bio, Hi'cetas
- Smith's Bio, Le'ptines
- Smith's Bio, Libo, Poete'lius
- Smith's Bio, Philippus Ii.
- Smith's Bio, Timo'leon
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