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Title: Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Freeman, Edward Augustus, 1823-1892
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Publisher: London : Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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y way and receiving all favour and honour backagain. The course taken by the war barely touchedSyracuse ; so the well-being of the city and of therest of Hierons dominions was hardly at all disturbed.Hieron was the first of many kings whom the Romanscalled their allies ; a new state of things in shortbegan with him. The kingdom left to him took inthe old territory of Syracuse and the towns of theeast coast as far north as Tauromenion. For the restof Sicily Romans and Carthaginians went on fighting.In the next year, 262, it is worth noting that thepeople of Segesta, who had a Carthaginian garrisonin their town, rose and slew them and joined theRomans. Agathokles had rooted out the old Klymianpeople of Segesta ; but the mi.xed multitude whom hehad planted there did as men always do in such cases;they took up the old traditions of the place. Theygave themselves out for Trojans ; and it was veryconvenient for the Romans to greet them as brethrenand to deal with Segesta as a favoured ally.
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TAKING OF AKKAGAS. 281 About the i^amc time one c^f tlie greatest Greekcities of Sicily came to the end of its history as aGreek city. Akragas was now a Carthaginian pos-session, and it was determined to make it the greatcentre of Carthaginian power in Sicily. This led tothe great Roman siege of that city. By a strangeturning-about of things from what we have been usedto sec, Akragas was defended by Punic armies. Andof course, whichever side succeeded, it meant thedying out of the Greek life of the place. The siegewas a long one, with various exploits on both sides.At last the Carthaginian commander Hannibal, find-ing no hope of holding the place, cut his way out.The city was for a moment left to itself; but theRomans burst in, and all was over. The horrors of aRoman storm followed ; those who were not slain weresold into slavery. Akragas, fairest of mortal cities,after rising again, though not to its old greatness,from its first Carthaginian overthrow, finally sinks intothe provincia

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