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[2] They also levied tribute upon the peoples they had conquered, and although before this time they had not used coined money, they now collected yearly from the tribute more than a thousand talents.1

When the Lacedaemonians had settled the affairs of Greece to their own taste, they dispatched Aristus,2 one of their distinguished men, to Syracuse, ostensibly pretending that they would overthrow the government, but in truth with intent to increase the power of the tyranny; for they hoped that by helping to establish the rule of Dionysius they would obtain his ready service because of their benefactions to him.

1 Diodorus is the only authority for such a figure, which can scarcely be credited.

2 Named Aretes in chap. 70.3.

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