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 480 HISTORY OF GREECE. sympathy and concurrence greatly promoted the success of his efforts, for this immense equipment against the common enemy. Even with all this sympathy, indeed, we are at a loss to under- stand, nor are we at all informed, how he found money to meet so prodigious an outlay. After the material means for war had thus been completed, an operation which can hardly have occupied less than two or three years, it remained to levy men. On this point, the ideas of Dionysius were not less aspiring. Besides his own numerous standing force, he enlisted all the most effective among the Syra- cusan citizens, as well as from the cities in his dependency. He sent friendly addresses, and tried to acquire popularity, among the general body of Greeks throughout the island. Of his large fleet, one-half was manned with Syracusan rowers, marines, and officers ; the other half with seamen enlisted from abroad. He farther sent envoys both to Italy and to Peloponnesus to obtain auxiliaries, with offers of the most liberal pay. From Sparta, now at the height of her power, and courting his alliance as a means of per- petuity to her own empire, he received such warm encouragement, that he was enabled to enlist no inconsiderable numbers in Pelo- ponnesus ; while many barbaric or non-Hellenic soldiers from the western regions near the Mediterranean were hired also. 1 He at length succeeded, to his satisfaction, in collecting an aggregate army, formidable not less from numbers and bravery, than from elaborate and diversified equipment. His large and well-stocked armory (already noticed) enabled him to furnish each newly-arrived Boldier, from all the different nations, with native and appropriate weapons. 2 When all his preparations were thus complete, his last step was to celebrate his nuptials, a few days previous to the active com- mencement of the war. He married, at one and the same time, two wives, the Lokrian Doris (already mentioned), and a Syra- cusan woman named Aristcmache, daughter of his partisan Hip- parinus (and sister of Dion, respecting whom much will occur hereafter). The first use made of one among his newly-invented quinquereme vessels, was to sail to Lokri, decked out in the richest ornaments of gold and silver, for the purpose of conveying Doris 1 Di-xlor. xiv 43, 44, 45 Diodor. xiv, 41