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 502 HISTORY OF GRKECE. Diodorus in his history gives us a long harangue (whether com- posed by himself, or copied from others, we cannot tell) as pro- nounced by Theodoras. The main topics of it are such as we should naturally expect, and are probably, on the whole, genuine. It is a full review, and an emphatic denunciation, of the past con- duct of Dionysius, concluding with an appeal to the Syracusana to emancipate themselves from his dominion. " Dionysius (the speaker contends, in substance) is a worse enemy than the Car- thaginians : who, if victorious, would be satisfied with a regular tribute, leaving us to enjoy our properties and our paternal polity. Dionysius has robbed us of both. He has pillaged our temples of their sacred deposits. He has slain or banished our wealthy citizens, and then seized their properties by wholesale, to be trans- ferred to his own satellites. He has given the wives of these ex- iles in marriage to his barbarian soldiers. He has liberated our slaves, and taken them into his pay, in order to keep their mas- ters in slavery. He has garrisoned our own citadel against us, by means of these slaves, together with a host of other mercenaries. He has put to death every citizen who ventured to raise his voice in defence of the laws and constitution. He has abused our con- fidence, once, unfortunately, carried so far as to nominate him general, by employing his powers to subvert our freedom, and rule us according to his own selfish rapacity in place of justice. He has farther stripped us of our arms ; these, recent necessity has compelled him to restore, and these, if we are men, we shall now employ for the recovery of our own freedom. 1 f Karahiiaeiv rbv TToAeftov. 'ildr] (5' avrov /ueh- lovrof diahvetv TTJV EKK'Arjaiav, uvaaruf OeoSupof 6 Svpanovaiof, iv rotf in- "rsiiGiv ev6oKi/j.iJv, Kal doKuv elvai npaKTiKbf, uTrTO?i/j.r]a Kepi rf/f e/lfi>i9epta{ ' Diodor. xiv, 65. Ourof 6e, ru. fiev lepa avTiijaaf, rovf 6s rtiv IdiuTiJv nhovrovs u/j.a ratf rtiv KEKTTIHEVUV tpvxatf a^e/16/zevof, roiif oiKETaf [iicr&odo- TFl ETri TT/ TUV dsOTTOTUV fJoil/letif . . . . c. 66. 'H fiF.v yup a/cpoTroAtf, doiihuv OTT^-OU; rripovfjiEvrj, Kara rrjf Trofaof tirireTeixiarat rd 6e TUV (j.ia'&j^opuv TrA^tfof im dovfaia TUV Svpanovaiuv f/$poi(JTCi. Kal Kparel TTJ^ Trc'Aeuf ova mai]<; flpaflevuv TO diKaiov, u/l^d fiovapxoc; Tr/leorefd'^ npivuv npuTreiv irdvra. Kal vi/v [lev oi -KoKifuoL /?pa^t) ^ifpof e%ovai Ti) %upa' &iovi>cno 6s, nuaav Troirjaae avaaraTov, TOI( rrjv TV- pavvida avvav^ovatv ISupiiaaro ...... ...... Kal npbf ftsv Kapxr/Soviovf 5vo /iuxa<; EvaTrtaufievof sv SKarfpatf Trapa 6s rolf TroAi'ratc irioTtvde If ana!; arparriyiav, Evfteue aeiASTt