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58. During the same summer the people of Camarina and Gela in Sicily made a truce, in the first1 instance with one another only. But after a while all the other Sicilian states sent envoys to Gela, where they held a conference in the hope of effecting a reconciliation. Many opinions were expressed on both sides; and the representatives of the different cities wrangled and put in claims for the redress of their several grievances. At length Hermocrates the son of Hermon, a Syracusan,2 whose words chiefly influenced their decision3, addressed the conference in the following speech:

1 A conference is held at Gela between the representatives of the Sicilian states.

2 Or, 'who had been the chief agent in bringing them together.'

3 Or, 'who had been the chief agent in bringing them together.'

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