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However, although he seems to have acted with such moderation, he thought that the city suffered a lamentable fate, and amidst the great rejoicing of his followers his spirit nevertheless evinced its sympathy and commiseration when he saw a great and glorious prosperity vanishing in a brief time.
For it is said that no less wealth was carried away from Syracuse now than at a later time from Carthage; for not long afterwards1 the rest of the city was betrayed and taken and subjected to pillage, excepting the royal treasure; this was converted into the public treasury.
1 In 212 B.C., the siege having lasted nearly three years. Cf. Livy, xxv. 24-31.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. 5.
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