Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . e most likely had a knowledge of nature beyondhis time. He cleansed rivers and did other usefulworks. And he was the foremost man in the common-wealth of Akragas in that day. He refused thetyranny or supreme power in some shape ; hebrought about the condemnation of some men whowere aiming at tyranny ; he lessened the power ofthe senate, and so made the state more after days, when the Athenians came into Sicilyand warred against Syracuse, and when Akragas wasbitterly jealous of Syracuse, Empedokles helped theSyracusans against Athens. For th
Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . e most likely had a knowledge of nature beyondhis time. He cleansed rivers and did other usefulworks. And he was the foremost man in the common-wealth of Akragas in that day. He refused thetyranny or supreme power in some shape ; hebrought about the condemnation of some men whowere aiming at tyranny ; he lessened the power ofthe senate, and so made the state more after days, when the Athenians came into Sicilyand warred against Syracuse, and when Akragas wasbitterly jealous of Syracuse, Empedokles helped theSyracusans against Athens. For thus preferring theinterests of all Sicily to the passions of his own city,Empedokles was banished from Akragas. He wentto Old Greece and died, and was buried at the elderMegara. One can believe that the jealousy between Syracuseand Akragas, between the first city in the island andthe second, had been handed on from the days of thetyrants or earlier. But it was at least greatly strength-ened by events in the wars of the time. For, though. gS GREEKS OF SICILY FREE AND INDEPENDENT. the time was comparatively peaceful, there were 453 the commonwealth of Syracuse undertook tochastise the Etruscan pirates, just as Hieron haddone. A fleet went forth and ravaged the wholeEtruscan coast. Much spoil was brought in, and itwould almost seem as if the Syracusans made somesettlements in the islands of Corsica and Elba; but,if so, they did not last. And there was a war in thewest of Sicily, of which we can make out nothingdistinctly; but it looks as if Akragas and Selinouswon some advantages over the Phoenicians. Inneither of these meagre accounts do we see Akragasand Syracuse coming across one another in any way,friendly or unfriendly. It was another war withbarbarians in which we hear of them in both ways,and which led to a lasting jealousy between the twocities. This sprang out of the last and greatest attempt ofthe Sikels to throw off the dominion of the Greeks intheir own island.
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