having been removed betimes by a happy fortune, pure and unstained with blood, from the evils which were rife in the mother country, and having displayed ability and valour in his dealings with Barbarians and tyrants, as well as justice and gentleness in his dealings with the Greeks and his friends;

having set up most of the trophies of his contests without causing his fellow citizens either tears or mourning, and having in even less than eight years346-338 B.C. handed over to her inhabitants a Sicily purged of her perpetual intestine miseries and complaints;