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Contents of the Sixteenth Book of Diodorus
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Lacking funds to pay his mercenaries, he sent a thousand men with his best officers
into the part of Sicily ruled by the Carthaginians.1 They pillaged a large area, and,
carrying off a large amount of plunder, delivered it to Timoleon. Selling this and realizing a
large sum of money, he paid his mercenaries for a long term of service.
[2]
He took Entella also and, after putting to death the fifteen persons who
were the strongest supporters of the Carthaginians, restored the rest to independence. As his
strength and military reputation grew, all the Greek cities in Sicily began to submit
themselves voluntarily to him, thanks to his policy of restoring to all their autonomy. Many
too of the cities of the Sicels and the Sicanians and the rest who were subject to the
Carthaginians approached him through embassies in a desire to be included in his alliance.
[3]
The Carthaginians recognized
that their generals in Sicily were conducting the war in a spiritless manner and decided to
send out new ones together with heavy reinforcements.2 Straightway they made a levy for the
campaign from among their noblest citizens3 and made suitable drafts among the
Libyans. Furthermore, appropriating a large sum of money, they enlisted mercenaries from among
the Iberians, Celts, and Ligurians.4 They were
occupied also with the construction of battleships. They assembled many freighters and
manufactured other supplies in enormous quantities.
4 Plut. Timoleon 28.6 mentions Libyans, Iberians, and Numidians.
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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