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 258 DION. after some fair and reasonable, expression of his feelings, that he was at friends with him, and thus, leading him alone to the sea-side, under the castle wall, he showed hma the letter, and taxed him with consj^iring with the Carthaginians against him. And when Dion essayed to speak in his own defence, Dionysius suffered him not; but immediately forced him aboard a boat, which lay Ihere for that purpose, and commanded the sailors to set him ashore on the coast of Italy. When this was publicly known, and was thought very hard usage, there was much lamentation in the tyrant's own household on account of the women/-' but the citizens of Syracuse encouraged themselves, expecting that for his sake some disturbance would ensue ; which, together with the mistrust others would now feel, might occasion a general change and revolution in the state. Dionysius, seeing this, took alarm, and endeavored to pacify the women and others of Dion's kindred and friends ; assuring them that he had not banished, but only sent him out of the way for a time, for fear of his own passion, which might be provoked some day by Dion's self-will into some act which he should be sorry for. He gave also two ships to his relations, with liberty to send into Pelopon- nesus for him whatever of his property or servants they thought fit. Dion was very rich, and had his house furnished with little less than royal splendor and magnificence. These valuables his friends packed up and conveyed to him, besides many rich presents which were sent him by the women and his adherents. So that, so far as wealth and riches went, he made a noble appearance among the Greeks, and they might judge, by the affluence of the exile, what was the power of the tyrant.
 * Dion's wife, Arete, and sister, Aristomaclie.