[p. i]
HISTORY OF GREECE.
BY
GEORGE GROTE, Esq.
VOL. XI.
REPRINTED FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
329 AND 331 PEARL STREET.
1880.
[p. iii]
PREFACE TO VOL. XI.
This History has already occupied a farlarger space than I at first intended or anticipated.
Nevertheless, to bring it to the term marked out in my originalpreface—the close of the generation contemporary with Alexander,on whose reign we are about to enter—one more Volume will yet berequired.
That Volume will include a review of Plato and Aristotle, so faras the limits of a general history permit. Plato, indeed, belongingto the period already described, is partially noticed in the presentVolume; at an epoch of his life when, as counsellor of DionysiusII., he exercised positive action on the destinies of Syracuse. ButI thought it more convenient to reserve the appreciation of hisphilosophical character and influence, until I could present him injuxtaposition with his pupil Aristotle, whose maturity falls withinthe[p. iv] generation nowopening. These two distinguished thinkers will be found to throwlight reciprocally upon each other, in their points both of contrastand similarity.
G. G.
London, April 15, 1853.
[p. v]
CONTENTS.
VOL. XI.
PART II.
CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL GREECE.
CHAPTER LXXXIII.
SICILIAN AFFAIRS (continued). — FROM THEDESTRUCTION OF THE CARTHAGINIAN ARMY BY PESTILENCE BEFORE SYRACUSE,DOWN TO THE DEATH OF DIONYSIUS THE ELDER. B. C.394-367.
Frequent occurrence of pestilence among the Carthaginians, notextending to the Greeks in Sicily. — Mutiny among the mercenariesof Dionysius — Aristoteles their commander is sent away to Sparta.— Difficulties of Dionysius arising from his mercenaries — heavyburden of paying them. — Dionysius reëstablishes Messênê with newinhabitants. — Conquests of Dionysius in the interior of Sicily. —Alarm at Rhegium — Dionysius attacks the Sikel town of Tauromenium —desperate defence of the Sikels — Dionysius is repulsed and nearlyslain. — Agrigentum declares against Dionysius — reäppearance of theCarthaginian army under Magon. — Expedition of Dionysius againstRhegium — he fails in surprising the town — he concludes a truce forone year. — Magon again takes the field at Agyrium — is repulsed byDionysius — truce concluded. — Dionysius again attacks Tauromenium— captures it, drives out the Sikels, and plants new inhabitants.— Plans of Dionysi