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The Syracusans listened to him, and voted all that he desired. They chose three generals and no more; Hermocrates himself,1 Heraclides the son of Lysimachus, and Sicanus the son of Execestus.
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They also sent ambassadors to Corinth and to Lacedaemon requesting aid as allies, and urged the Lacedaemonians to make war openly and decidedly against the Athenians on their behalf; thus they would either draw them off from Sicily, or at any rate prevent them from sending reinforcements to the army which was there already.
1 The Syracusans follow his advice, and send envoys to Corinth and Lacedaemon.
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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