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Contents of the Fourteenth Book of Diodorus
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The same year Satyrus, the son of Spartacus and king of Bosporus, died
after a reign of forty years, and his son Leucon succeeded him in the rulership for a period of
forty years.
[2]
In Italy the
Romans, who were in the eleventh year of their siege of the Veians, appointed Marcus Furius to
be dictator and Publius Cornelius to be master of the horse. These restored the spirit of the
troops and captured Veii1 by constructing an underground passage; the city they reduced to slavery,
selling the inhabitants with the other booty.
[3]
The dictator
then celebrated a triumph, and the Roman people, taking a tenth of the spoil, made a gold bowl
and dedicated it to the oracle at Delphi.
[4]
The ambassadors who
were taking it fell in with pirates from the Lipari islands, were all taken prisoners, and
brought to Lipara. But Timasitheus, the general of the Liparaeans, on learning what had taken
place, rescued the ambassadors, gave them back the vessel of gold, and sent them on their way
to Delphi. The men who were conveying the bowl dedicated it in the Treasury2 of the Massalians and returned to
Rome.
[5]
Consequently the Roman people, when they learned of this
generous act of Timasitheus, honoured him at once by conferring the right to public
hospitality, and one hundred and thirty-seven years later, when they took Lipara from the
Carthaginians, they relieved the descendants of Timasitheus of the payment of taxes and gave
them freedom.
1 The fullest account of the capture of this city after a ten-year siege is in Livy 5.19 ff.
2 Delphi was filled with such small buildings erected by individual Greek cities to house their dedications to the oracle.
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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- Harper's, Leucon
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), HOSPI´TIUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), LI´PARA
- Smith's Bio, Camillus
- Smith's Bio, Leucon
- Smith's Bio, Sa'tyrus
- Smith's Bio, Spa'rtacus
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- Livy, The History of Rome, Book 5, 19.1
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