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 170 HISTORY OF GREECE. repurchasing the houses formerly their own. As the houses were sold, and that too for a considerable pi ice - so we may presume that the lands were sold also, and that the incoming settlers did not receive their lots gratuitously. But how they were sold, or how much of the territory was sold, we are left in ignorance. It is certain, however, that the effect of the new immigration was not only to renew the force and population of Syracuse, but also to furnish relief to the extreme poverty of the antecedent resi- dents. A great deal of new money must thus have been brought in. 1 Such important changes doubtless occupied a considerable time, though we are not enabled to arrange them in months or years. In the meantime Timoleon continued to act in such a manner as to retain, and even to strengthen, the confidence and attachment of the Syracusans. He employed his forces actively in putting down and expelling the remaining despots throughout the island. He first attacked Hiketas, his old enemy, at Leontini ; and compelled him to capitulate, on condition of demolishing the fortified citadel, abdicating his rule, and living as a private citizen in the town. Leptines, despot of Apollonia and of several other neighboring townships, was also constrained to submit, and to em- brace the offer of a transport to Corinth. 2 It appears that the submission of Hiketas was merely a feint, to obtain time for strengthening himself by urging the Carthagin- ians to try another invasion of Sicily. 3 They were the more dis- 1 Plutarch, Timoleon, c. 23. nal -yevofievoif avroic e$aKia/j.vpiocf T) "A.'&avif elprjue, ri]v /tev x&pav Sifveifie, ray 6e oiKiaf a7r5ort iuv rakavTuv, li/ia HEV VTrofanro/Aevof rolf up%aiot( SvpaKoatoif e^uveia- t ruf avTuv, tipa 6e xP 7 lfi t < lTUV eviropiav Tip 6f/fj.(f> pjxavufievof OVTU( ievu KOL Trpbf ru^/la KUL irpbf nohefiov, ware, etc. Diodorus (xvi. 82) affirms that forty thousand new settlers were admitted 'f TTIV ZvpaKovmav TTJV adiaiperov, and that ten thousand were settled in certainly, after the despot of Agyrium had been put down by Timoleon We should have been glad to have an explanation of rriv Zvpanoroiav T/> udiaipcTov : in the absence of information, conjecture as to the meaning i vain. " Plutarch, Timoleon, c 24. a Plutarch, Timoleon, c. 30. Diodor. (xvi. 72) docs not mention that Hike Ins submitted at all. He states that Timoleon wu:-; rcuulscd in attack
 * he fine and fertile territory of Agyrium. This latter measure was taken