Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, BOOK VI, chapter 5

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5. Himera was colonised from Zanclè by Euclides, Simus, and Sacon. Most of the settlers were¹ Chalcidian, but the so-called Myletidae, Syracusan exiles who had been defeated² in a civil war, took part in the colony. Their language was a mixture of the Chalcidian and Doric dialects, but their institutions were mainly Chalcidian. (13) [2] Acrae and Casmenae were founded by the Syracusans, Acrae seventy years after Syracuse, and Casmenae nearly twenty years after Acrae. [3] Camarina was originally founded by the Syracusans exactly a hundred and thirty-five years after the foundation of Syracuse; the founders were Dascon and Menecolus. But the Camarinaeans revolted, and as a punishment for their revolt were violently expelled by the Syracusans. After a time Hippocrates the tyrant of³ Gela, receiving the territory of Camarina⁴ as the ransom of certain Syracusan prisoners, became the second founder of the place, which he colonised anew. The inhabitants⁵ 'were once more driven out by Gelo,⁶ who himself colonised the city for the third time⁷

1 B.C. 648?

2 (12) Himera, from Zanclè. (13) Acrae, 664 B.C., and (14) Casmenae, 644 B.C., from Syracuse. (15) Camarina, from Syracuse, 599 B. C.

3 B.C. 498–491.

4 Cp. Herod vii. 154.

5 B.C. 491–478.

6 Or, adopting the conjecture γελώων: 'and the city was colonised for the third time by the inhabitants of Gela.' This accords with the statement of Diodorus, xi. 76.

7 Or, adopting the conjecture γελώων: 'and the city was colonised for the third time by the inhabitants of Gela.' This accords with the statement of Diodorus, xi. 76.

Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.

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- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 6.24
- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 7.154
- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 7.155
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3, 3.34
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, SPEECH OF NICIAS TO THE ATHENI- ANS ON LEAVING SYRACUSE.
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- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, HIMERA Sicily.
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, KAMARINA Sicily.
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, KASMENAI Sicily.
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ACRAE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CAMARI´NA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CA´SMENAE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), HI´MERA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MESSA´NA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SYRACU´SAE
- Smith's Bio, Eucleides
- Smith's Bio, Gelon
- Smith's Bio, Hippo'crates
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SICI´LIA
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- Herodotus, Histories, 7.154
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- LSJ, κτίσ-ις
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