The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonian, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1774 edition. Excerpt: ...they declared free and independent the Syracusans, and all the people of Sicily, who should return into their own country, and exhorted them to repair thither, to partake of an equal and just distribution of the lands amongst them. At the fame time they dispatched couriers into Asia, and into all the isles, whither great numbers of fugitives had retired, to invite them to come as soon as possible to Corinth, which would provide them vessels, commanders, and a safe convoy to transport them into their country at its own expence. Upon this publication Corinth received universal praises and blessings, as it justly deserved. It was every where proclaimed, that Corinth had delivered Syracuse from the tyrants, had preserved it from falling into the hands of the Barbarians, and restored it to its citizens. It is not necessary to insist here upon the grandeur of so noble and generous an action: The mere relation of it must make the impression that always results from the great and noble; and every body owned, that never conquest or triumph equalled the glory which the Corinthians then acquired by so perfect and magnanimous a disinterestedness. Those who came to Corinth, not being sufficiently numerous demanded an addition of inhabitants from that city and t: all Greece to augment this kind of colonv. Having obtaicec their request, and finding themselves increased to ten thousand they embarked for Syracuse, where a multitude of people fror all parts of Italy and Sicily had joined Timoleon. It was fail their number amounted to sixty thousand and upwards. Timo leon distributed the lands amongst them gratis; but soW then the houses, with which he raised a very great sum; leaving i to the discretion of the old inhabitants to redeem their own And by...