Dion

in envy of good men and opposition to their noble deeds, try to confound and terrify them, causing their virtue to rock and totter, in order that they may not continue erect and inviolate in the path of honour and so attain a better portion after death than the spirits themselves.

But this subject must be reserved for discussion elsewhere, and in this, the twelfth book[*](The Pericles was part of the tenth book (chapter ii. 3), the Demosthenes part of the fifth (chapter iii. 1). The ordinary arrangement of the Lives purely arbitrary.) of my Parallel Lives, I shall begin with that of the elder man.

Dionysius the Elder, after assuming the reins of government,[*](In 405 B.C.) at once married the daughter of Hermocrates the Syracusan.

But she, since the tyranny was not yet securely established, was terribly and outrageously abused in her person by the seditious Syracusans, and in consequence put an end to her own life.

Then Dionysius, after resuming the power and making himself strong again, married two wives at once, one from Locri, whose name was Doris, the other a native of the city, Aristomache, daughter of Hipparinus, who was a leading man in Syracuse, and had been a colleague of Dionysius when he was first chosen general with full powers for the war.