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1 Of Athens.
2 Enough of the oration is preserved (Lys. 33) to show that Lysias urged the Greeks to unite against their two great enemies, the Persian King and Dionysius. Plutarch (Plut. Them. 25), on the authority of Theophrastus, tells a similar story of c. 470 B.C. when Hiero of Syracuse is represented as sending chariot horses and a costly pavilion to Olympia and Themistocles as urging that the pavilion be torn down and the horses prevented from competing. The story is clearly a pure fabrication based on this account of Diodorus (see Walker in Camb. Anc. Hist. 5, p. 36).
3 Tarentum.
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ETRU´RIA
- Smith's Bio, Diony'sius or Diony'sius the Elder or the Elder Diony'sius
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- Lysias, Olympic Oration
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- LSJ, διασυρ-μός
- LSJ, ἱμάτιον
- LSJ, μαίνομαι
- LSJ, προφέρω
- LSJ, ὕστερος
- LSJ, ὑπο-κρι^τής