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 KAULONIA AND IIIPPONIUM. 17 ing themselves without hope of succor, and intimidated by the disaster of their Italiot allies, sent out heralds to beg for moderate terms, and imploring him to abstain from extreme or unmeasured rigor. 1 For a moment, Dionysius seemed to comply with their re- quest. He granted them peace, on condition that they should sur- render all their ships of war, seventy in number that they should pay to him three hundred talents in money and that they should place in his hands one hundred hostages. All these demands were strictly complied with ; upon which Uionysius withdrew his army, and agreed to spare the city. 2 His next proceeding was, to attack Kaulonia and Hipponium ; two cities which seem between them to have occupied the whole breadth of the Calabrian peninsula, immediately north of Rhegiura and Lokri ; Kaulonia on the eastern coast, Hipponium on or near the western. Both these cities he besieged, took, and destroyed : probably neither of them, in the hopeless circumstances of the case, made any strenuous resistance. He then caused the inhabi- tants of both of them, such at least as did not make their escape, to be transported to Syracuse, where he domiciliated them as citi- zens, allowing them five years of exemption from taxes. 3 To be a citizen of Syracuse meant at this moment, to be a subject of his despotism, and nothing more : how he made room for these new citizens, or furnished them with lands and houses, we are unfor- tunately not informed. But the territory of both these towns, evacuated by its free inhabitants (though probably not by its slaves, or serfs), was handed over to the Lokrians and annexed to their city. That favored city, which had accepted his offer of marriage, was thus immensely enriched both in lands and in collective prop- erty. Here again it would have been interesting to hear what measures were taken to appropriate or distribute the new lands ; but our informant is silent. Dionysius had thus accumulated into Syracuse, not only all Sicily 4 (to use the language of Plato), but even no inconsiderable portion of Italy. Such wholesale changes of domicile and prop- 1 Diodor xiv. 106, nal ira^aia^i-aai /J.7j6ev nepl avruv vtrep -j.v&p<>'- r ov fiovheveo'Sai. 2- Jito, Epistol. vii. p. 332 ]"). Aiovvatcif 6e elf /Lav iroJuv u)pcica( rilczv 2iKE?*iav virti acxpiaf, etc. 2*
 * Diodor. xiv. 106. 3 Dbdor. xiv. 106, 107.