Sicily

[I speak of those in old Greece,] for those in Sicily advanced to a very great degree of power.

and the Peloponnesians, the greater part of Italy and Sicily, and some places in the rest of Greece.

and to make an experiment whether it were possible for them to bring Sicily into subjection to themselves.

As they voyaged to Sicily, the Samians came to the country of the Epizephyrian

As for Dionysius the Phocaean, when he saw that the Ionian cause was lost, he sailed away with the three enemy ships that he had captured;

The people of Zancle in Sicily about this time sent messengers to Ionia inviting the Ionians to the Fair Coast, desiring there to found an Ionian city.

And they freed Sicily too from the barbarians, and Syracuse from the tyrants.

Again, then, when the Athenians inquired about the island of Sicily, he gave them the oracle to add to their city Sicilia—a certain hill near the city.

on the other hand, they are assisting Amyntas, king of the Macedonians, and Dionysius, the tyrant of Sicily, and the barbarian king who rules over Asia, to extend their dominions far and wide.

But perhaps many might even laugh at my simplicity if I should lament the misfortunes of individual men, in times like these, when Italy has been laid waste, when Sicily has been enslaved, when such mighty cities have been given over to the barbarians, and when the remaining portions of the Hellenic race are in the gravest peril.

In mighty bend and bay the Ionic seas,

As with its force anew to vomit fires,

The mighty and the wondrous isle to men,

When you were making for Sicily, you crossed the strait.

I am waiting for your letters, in which you may tell me what new sights your tour around the whole of Sicily has shown you, and above all some surer information about Charybdis itself.

So the year ended, being the year in which the Carthaginians, under the leadership of Hannibal, made an expedition against Sicily, with an army of one hundred thousand men, and in the course of three months captured two Greek cities, Selinus and Himera.

So the year ended, being the year in which the Carthaginians made an expedition to Sicily with one hundred and twenty triremes and an army of one hundred and twenty thousand men, and although defeated in battle, starved Acragas into submission after besieging it for seven months.

Further, Corcyra was situated in a favourable position with respect to the Corinthian Gulf and the states which reach down to its shores, in a favourable position for doing damage to the territory of Laconia, and in an extremely favourable position with respect to Epirus across the way and the coastwise route from Sicily to Peloponnesus.

and he undertook to liken me to Dionysius, the tyrant of Sicily, and vehemently and with loud cries he called upon you to be on your guard against me;

I have been sent on missions to Thessaly, to Macedonia, to Molossia, to Thesprotia, to Italy, and to Sicily.

The Assembly had met to give audience to Nicias, Lamachus, and Alcibiades, the generals about to leave with the Sicilian expedition—in fact, Lamachus’ flag-ship was already lying offshore—when suddenly Pythonicus rose before the people and cried:

instead of staying at home as the allies of Syracuse, we chose to send an armament to Sicily.

He was assigned to the province of Lilybaeum in Sicily, and the vigor and justice of his administration earned him the gratitude of the inhabitants.

And Philochorus says that in Tenos Poseidon is honoured as a physician, and that Sicily lies upon Cronus, and that he is buried there.

For Dionysius the younger tyrant, having stripped off the golden cloak of Zeus in Sicily, ordered a woollen one to be put about him, wittily saying that this was better than the golden one, both lighter in summer and warmer in cold.

Since then I have had no business transaction with the fellow, whether great or small, but Parmeno sued him for damages for the blows which he received from him when he laid hands on the slaves as they were being carried off, and because he had been prevented by him from making the voyage to Sicily.

Afterwards, however, men of the jury, when the ships from Sicily had arrived, and the prices of grain here were falling, and their ship had reached Egypt, the defendant straightway sent a man to Rhodes to inform his partner Parmeniscus of the state of things here, well knowing that his ship would be forced to touch at Rhodes.

Amytheon, my mother’s brother, was one of those who served in the campaign in Sicily and were killed there, and he lies buried in the public tomb.

For Epicerdes, as this decree then passed in his honor declares, gave a hundred minae to our fellow-countrymen at that time prisoners in Sicily under such distressing circumstances, and thus he became the chief instrument in saving them from all perishing of hunger.

Protus on his part adjured us by the gods to put him out, declaring himself ready to sail back to Sicily;

For Protus, so long as he thought to get a profit for himself from the grain by going, clung to it, and chose rather to make his profit, and to render to us what was our due, than to make common cause with these men, sharing with them the advantage gained and doing us an injury.

It happened that I was sent as trierarch round the Peloponnesus, and from thence I had to carry to Sicily the ambassadors whom the people had elected.

Did you not accuse Callippus, who is now in Sicily?

This is mount Aetna, the highest point in Sicily.

And now will I get me to the beach and start my hollow ship across the sea of Sicily to the land of my fathers.

A special edict was issued for each separate province (thus we read of an Edictum Siciliense);

The moment that she began to trade with the foreigner, whether in Italy, Sicily, or Africa, she must have seen that her own Jus Civile was an impossible basis for trading relations.

a daimôn drove me off my course as I was leaving Sicania, and I have been carried here against my will.

as was the case in the treaty made between the Roman people and the Carthaginians at the conclusion of the war that had originated in a dispute about Sicily, by which treaty it was stipulated that both powers should forbear attacking the allies of each other.