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Contents of the Thirteenth Book of Diodorus
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After the Laconian had spoken to this effect, the multitude suddenly changed its mind
and approved the proposal of Diocles.1 Consequently the generals2 and the allies3 were forthwith put to death, and the Athenians were consigned to the quarries;
and at a later time such of them as possessed a better education were rescued from there by the
younger men and thus got away safe, but practically all the rest ended their lives pitiably
amid the hardships of this place of confinement.
[2]
After the termination of the war Diocles set up the laws for the
Syracusans, and it came to pass that this man experienced a strange reversal of fortune. For
having become implacable in fixing penalties and severe in punishing offenders, he wrote in the
laws that, if any man should appear in the market-place carrying a weapon, the punishment
should be death, and he made no allowance for either ignorance or any other circumstance.
[3]
And when word had been received that enemies were in the
land, he set forth carrying a sword; but since sudden civil strife had arisen and there was
uproar in the market-place, he thoughtlessly entered the market-place with the sword. And when
one of the ordinary citizens, noticing this, said that he himself was annulling his own laws,
he cried out, "Not so, by Zeus, I will even uphold them." And drawing the sword he slew
himself.4These, then, were the events of this year.
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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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), LAUTU´MIAE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SYRACU´SAE
- Smith's Bio, Demo'sthenes
- Smith's Bio, Di'ocles
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