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 DION. 301 rest, Dion's murderers. When no city in Sicily would admit him, but all hated and abhorred him, he went into Italy and took Rhegium ; and there, being in distress and not able to maintain his soldiers, he was killed by Le- ptines and Polysperchon, and, as fortune would have it, with the same sword by which Dion was murdered, which was known by the size, being but short, as the Spartan swords, and the workmanship of it very curious and arti- ficial. Thus Callippus received the reward of his vil- lanies. When Aristomache and Arete were released out of prison, Hicetes, one of Dion's friends, took them to his house, and seemed to intend to entertain them well and like a faithful friend. Aftenvards, being persuaded by Dion's enemies, he provided a ship and pretended to send them into, Peloponnesus, but commanded the sailors, when they came out to sea, to kill them and throw them over- board. Others say that they and the little boy were thrown alive into the sea. This man also escaped not the due recompense of his wickedness, for he was taken by Timoleon and put to death, and the Syracusans, to revenge Dion, slew his two daughters; of all which I have given a more particular account in the life of Timo- leon.