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Zancle was originally founded by pirates from Cuma, the Chalcidian town in the country of the Opicans: afterwards, however, large numbers came from Chalcis and the rest of Euboea, and helped to people the place; the founders being Perieres and Crataemenes from Cuma and Chalcis respectively.
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, THE SIXTH BOOK, chapter 6
For bordering on the territory of the Selinuntians, they had...
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, THE SIXTH BOOK, chapter 6
THE SIXTH BOOK. THE PRINCIPAL CONTENTS. Sicily described. -- The causes and pretences of the Sicilian war, with the consultation and preparation for the same. -- Alcibiades, one of the generals of the army, accused of defacing the images of Mercury, is suffered for that present to depart with the army.
Feb 3, 2013 · Zancle was originally founded by pirates from Cuma, the Chalcidian town in the country of the Opicans: afterwards, however, large numbers came from Chalcis and the rest of Euboea, and helped to people the place; the founders being Perieres and Crataemenes from Cuma and Chalcis respectively.
Book 6 Summary Summary: “Sicilian Antiquities” (Chapters 1-7) Thucydides discusses Sicily’s history and Athens’ reasons for wanting to conquer it, which is due to treasure the Athenians have been told will be available to them.
The Sixth Book. Chapter XVIII. Seventeenth Year of the War - The Sicilian Campaign - Affair of the Hermae - Departure of the Expedition.
For bordering on the territory of the Selinuntians, they had begun a war about certain things concerning marriage and about a piece of ground that lay doubtfully between them. And the Selinuntians, having leagued themselves with the Syracusians, infested them with war both by sea and by land.
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