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 SURRENDER OF ORTYGIA. ]f>] tev and protection at Corinth, with as much property as he could carry away with him ; since he had the means of purchasing such guarantee by the surrender of Ortygia a treasure of inestima ble worth. Accordingly he resolved to propose a capitulation, and sent envoys to Timoleon for the purpose. There was little difficulty in arranging terms. Dionysius stip- ulated only for a safe transit with his movable property to Co- rinth, and for an undisturbed residence in that city ; tendering in exchange the unconditional surrender of Ortygia with all its gar- rison, arms, and magazines. The convention was concluded forth- with, and three Corinthian officers Telemachus, Eukleides and Neon were sent in with four hundred men to take charge of the place. Their entrance was accomplished safely, though they were obliged to elude the blockade by stealing in at several times, and in small companies. Making over to them the possession of Ortygia with the command of its garrison, Dionysius passed, with some money and a small number of companions, into the camp of Timoleon ; who conveyed him away, leaving at the same time the neighborhood of Syracuse. l Conceive the position and feelings of Dionysius, a prisoner in the camp of Timoleon, traversing that island over which his fa- ther as well as himself had reigned all-powerful, and knowing himself to be the object of either hatred or contempt to every one, except so far as the immense boon which he had conferred, by surrendering Ortygia, purchased for him an indulgent forbear- ance ! He was doubtless eager for immediate departure to Co- rinth, while Timoleon was no less anxious to send him thither, as the living evidence of triumph accomplished. Although not fifty days 2 had yet elapsed, since Timoleon's landing in Sicily, he was enabled already to announce a decisive victory, a great confederacy grouped around him, and the possession of the inexpugnable po- sition of Ortygia, with a garrison equal in number to his own army ; the despatches being accompanied by the presence of that 1 Plutarch, Timoleon, c. 13; Diodor. xvi. 70. Diodorus appears to me to misdate these facts ; placing the capitulation of Dionysius and the sur- render of Ortygia to Timoleon, after the capture of the other portion of Syracuse by Timoleon. I follow Plutarch's chronology, which places th tapitulation of Ortygia first.
 * Plutarch, Timoleon, c 16.