Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold . encouraged bythese signs of divine favour. But when they reachedthe coast of Italy discouraging news, which causedmuch perplexity to Timoleon, met them. They learntthat Icetes had beaten Dionysius in a pitched battle,and, having captured the greater part of the town ofSyracuse, had shut up the tyrant in the citadel and apart of the city near it, and was closely besieging himtherein. At the same time he had sent the Carthaginianfleet to prevent the landing of the Corinthians in trusted that, once rid of the Cor
Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold . encouraged bythese signs of divine favour. But when they reachedthe coast of Italy discouraging news, which causedmuch perplexity to Timoleon, met them. They learntthat Icetes had beaten Dionysius in a pitched battle,and, having captured the greater part of the town ofSyracuse, had shut up the tyrant in the citadel and apart of the city near it, and was closely besieging himtherein. At the same time he had sent the Carthaginianfleet to prevent the landing of the Corinthians in trusted that, once rid of the Corinthians, he and hisnew alUes would have little difficulty in taking thewhole island and sharing it between them. Thus it happened that, when Timoleons expeditionarrived at Rhegium on the Italian side of the Straits ofMessina, they found twenty Carthaginian ships ridingat anchor in the harbour. With them were ambassadorsfrom Icetes, who bore a message to the effect thatTimoleon might, if he liked, go unaccompanied toassist Icetes with his counsel, but that all the ships. TIMOLEON SETTING SAIL FOR SICILY. TIMOLEON 77 and troops must be sent back to Corinth, and that, ifthey attempted to cross over to Sicily, the Carthaginianswould oppose them. The Corinthians were filled with indignation againstIcetes and with perplexity at their own seemed little chance of getting the better of theCarthaginians, who lay watching them with twice theirnumber of ships. Even could they do so, it seemedimprobable that they could contend successfully withthe forces of Icetes, which they had expected to meetas allies, and now found to be foes. In this state of affairs Timoleon, in an interviewwith the ambassadors and the Carthaginian commanders,pretended to agree to their proposals. There was, hesaid, nothing to be gained by opposition, and he musttherefore submit, but, for his own security and sothat the facts might be generally known, he requiredthat the proposals should be laid befor
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