Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XI, Chapter 66

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When Lysistratus was archon in Athens, the Romans elected as consuls Lucius Pinarius Mamertinus and Publius Furius Fifron.² In this year Hieron, the king of the Syracusans, summoning to Syracuse the sons of Anaxilas, the former tyrant of Zancle, and giving them great gifts, reminded them of the benefactions Gelon had rendered their father, and advised them, now that they had come of age, to require an accounting of Micythus, their guardian, and themselves to take over the government of Zancle. [2] And when they had returned to Rhegium and required of their guardian an accounting of his administration, Micythus, who was an upright man, gathered together the old family friends of the children and rendered so honest an accounting that all present were filled with admiration of both his justice and good faith; and the children, regretting the steps they had taken, begged Micythus to take back the administration and to conduct the affairs of the state with a father's power and position. [3] Micythus, however, did not accede to the request, but after turning everything over to them punctiliously and putting his own goods aboard a boat he set sail from Rhegium, accompanied by the goodwill of the populace; and reaching Greece he spent the rest of his life in Tegea in Arcadia, enjoying the approval of men. [4] And Hieron, the king of the Syracusans, died in Catana and received the honours which are accorded to heroes, as having been the founder of the city.³ He had ruled eleven years, and he left the kingdom to his brother Thrasybulus, who ruled over the Syracusans for one year.

1 467 B.C.

2 Fifron is a corruption of Fusus.

3 Cp. chap. 49.

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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Commentary references to this page (1):
- W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 5.47
Cross-references to this page (9):
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), COLO´NIA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CORINTHUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MESSA´NA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), RHE´GIUM
- Smith's Bio, Anaxila'us
- Smith's Bio, Hieron I.
- Smith's Bio, Leophron
- Smith's Bio, Mamerci'nus, Pina'rius
- Smith's Bio, Mi'cythus

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