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 t HISTORY OF GREECE. Naupaktus at the close of the Peloponnesian war, and had taken service in Sicily with Dionysius. Even here, the hatred of Spar- ta followed them. Her remonstrances against his project of es- tablishing them in a city of consideration bearing their own ancient name, obliged him to withdraw them : upon which he planted them on a portion of the Abakene territory on the north- ern coast. They gave to their new city the name of Tyndaris, admitted many new residents, and conducted their affairs so pru- dently, as presently to attain a total of five thousand citizens. 1 Neither here, nor at Messene, do we find any mention made ot the rcestablishment of those inhabitants who had fled when Imil- kon took Messene, and who formed nearly all the previous popu- lation of the city, for very few are mentioned as having been slain. It seems doubtful whether Dionysius readmitted them, when he re-constituted Messene. Renewing with care the fortifications of the city, which had been demolished by Imilkon, he placed in it some of his mercenaries as garrison. 2 Dionysius next undertook several expeditions against the Sikels in the interior of the island, who had joined Imilkon in his recent attack upon Syracuse. He conquered several of their towns, and established alliances with two of their most powerful princes, at Agyrium and Ken tori pae. Enna and Ivephaloedium were also betrayed to him, as well as the Carthaginian dependen- cy of Solus. By these proceedings, which appear to have occu pied some time, he acquired powerful ascendency in the central and north-east parts of the island, while his garrison at Messene ensured to him the command of the strait between Sicily and Italy.3 His acquisition of this important fortified position was well un- derstood to imply ulterior designs against Rhegium and the other Grecian cities in the south of Italy, among whom accordingly a lively alarm prevailed. The numerous exiles whom he had ex- pelled, not merely from Syracuse, but also from Naxus, Katana, and the other conquered towns, having no longer any assured 1 Diodor. xiv. 78. 2 Diodor. xiv. 87. 3 Diodor. xiv. 78. elf TT/V TUV 2t/c/.u>i> %upav n2.eovu.Kif arpa~evaa<;, etc Wesseling shows in his note, that these words, and those which follow must refer to Dionysius.