. titled lipoiv. His love of magnificencewas especially displayed in the great contestsof the Grecian games, and his victories atOlympia and Delphi have been immortalisedby Pindar.—2. King of Syracuse ( 270-216),was the son of Hierocles, a noble Syracusan,descended from the great Gelo, but his motherwas a female servant. When Pyrrhus leftSicily (275), Hiero, who had distinguished him-self in the wars of that monarch, was de-clared general by the Syracusan army. Hestrengthened his power by marrying thedaughter of Leptines, at that
. titled lipoiv. His love of magnificencewas especially displayed in the great contestsof the Grecian games, and his victories atOlympia and Delphi have been immortalisedby Pindar.—2. King of Syracuse ( 270-216),was the son of Hierocles, a noble Syracusan,descended from the great Gelo, but his motherwas a female servant. When Pyrrhus leftSicily (275), Hiero, who had distinguished him-self in the wars of that monarch, was de-clared general by the Syracusan army. Hestrengthened his power by marrying thedaughter of Leptines, at that time the mostinfluential citizen at Syracuse ; and after hisdefeat of the Mamertines, he was saluted by hisfellow-citizens with the title of king, 270. Itwas the great object of Hiero to expel the Ma-mertines from Sicily; and accordingly when theRomans, in 264, interposed in favour of thatpeople, Hiero concluded an alliance with theCarthaginians, and in conjunction with them,carried on war against the Romans. Buthaving been defeated by the Romans, he con-. Coin ol Hiero King o( Syracuse. , head of Hiero. diademed : Quadriga, with BA1IAEOI IEIQXOI. eluded a peace with them in the following year(263), in virtue of which he obtained possessionof the whole SE. of Sicily, and the E. side ofthe island us fur as Tauromenium. (Pol. i. 8-16; •Zonar. viii 9; Oros. iv. 1.) From this time ;till his death, a period of about half a century,Hiero continued the friend and ally of theRomans, u policy of which his subjects aswell as himself reaped the benefits in the en-joyment of a state of uninterrupted tranquillityand prosperity (Pol. i. 18, 62). Even the heavylosses which the Romans sustained in the firstthree years of the second Punic war did notshake his fidelity ; and after their great defeats,he sent them lurge supplies of corn and auxiliary-troops (Liv. xxi. 4!), xxii. 37, xxiii. 21). He diedin 216 at the age of ninety-two (Luciun, ; cf. Pol. vi
Size: 2207px × 1132px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidclassicaldic, bookyear1894
