Sicilians
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the Sicilians · all the rest of the Sicilians · inhabitants
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History of the Peloponnesian War
The assembled cities of Sicily who, persuaded by Hermocrates, agree to end their war and jointly expel the Athenians.
all of us who are neighbours, and live together in one country, and that an island, and are called by the one name of Sicilians.
Hermocrates having spoken to this effect, the Sicilians agreed amongst themselves in a determination to have done with the war, retaining their several possessions, but that Morgantina should be ceded to the Camarinaeans on their paying a stipulated sum of money to the Syracusans.
and then all the rest of the Sicilians also assembled at Gela, with embassies from all the cities, and held a conference together on the subject of a reconciliation.
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
The inhabitants of Sicily who benefited from Cicero's just quaestorship and requested his prosecution of Verres.
It was at their request that he undertook in 70 bc the prosecution of Verres, who as praetor had subjected the Sicilians to incredible extortion and oppression;