TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE * Italics are denoted by underscores as in _italics_. * Small caps are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS. * Letter spaced Greek text is enclosed in tildes as in ~καὶ τὰ λοιπά~. * Footnotes have been renumbered. Each footnote is placed at the end of the paragraph that includes its anchor. * Obvious printer errors have been silently corrected, after comparison with a later edition of this work. Greek text has also been corrected after checking with this later edition and with Perseus, when the reference was found. * Original spelling, hyphenation and punctuation have been kept, but variant spellings were made consistent when a predominant usage was found. * Nevetherless, no attempt has been made at normalizing proper names (i.e. Abdera and Abdêra, Alkibiades and Alkibiadês, Apollokrates and Apollokratês, Athenis and Athênis, Demeter and Dêmêtêr, Diokles and Dioklês, Euktemon and Euktêmon, Europe and Eurôpê, Here and Hêrê, Iatrokles and Iatroklês, Isokrates and Isokratês, Leptines and Leptinês, Mausolus and Mausôlus, Oropus and Orôpus, Pallenê and Pallênê, Pammenes and Pammenês, Philomelus and Philomêlus, Phenicians and Phœnicians, etc.). The author established at the beginning of the first volume of this work some rules of transcription for proper names, but neither he nor his publisher follows them consistently. HISTORY OF GREECE. BY GEORGE GROTE, ESQ. VOL. XI. REPRINTED FROM THE LONDON EDITION. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS 329 AND 331 PEARL STREET. 1880. PREFACE TO VOL. XI. This History has already occupied a far larger space than I at first intended or anticipated. Nevertheless, to bring it to the term marked out in my original preface—the close of the generation contemporary with Alexander, on whose reign we are about to enter—one more Volume will yet be required. That Volume will include a review of Plato and Aristotle, so far as the limits of a general history permit. Plato, indeed, belonging to the period already described, is partially noticed in the present Volume; at an epoch of his life when, as counsellor of Dionysius II., he exercised positive action on the destinies of Syracuse. But I thought it more convenient to reserve the appreciation of his philosophical character and influence, until I could present him in juxtaposition with his pupil Aristotle, whose maturity falls within the generation now opening. These two distinguished thinkers will be found to throw light reciprocally upon each other, in their points both of contrast and similarity. G. G. LONDON, APRIL 15, 1853. CONTENTS. VOL. XI. PART II. CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL GREECE. CHAPTER LXXXIII. SICILIAN AFFAIRS (_continued_). — FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CARTHAGINIAN ARMY BY PESTILENCE BEFORE SYRACUSE, DOWN TO THE DEATH OF DIONYSIUS THE ELDER. B. C. 394-367.