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            <request>
                <requestName>GetPassage</requestName>
                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:P.philodemus_1</requestUrn>
            </request>
            <reply>
                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:P.philodemus_1</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="P"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="philodemus-bio-1" n="philodemus_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Philode'mus</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Φιλόδημος</surname></persName>), an Argive, was sent
      by Hieronymus, king of Syracuse, to Hannibal in <date when-custom="-215">B. C. 215</date>, to
      propose an alliance. In <date when-custom="-212">B. C. 212</date>, when Marcellus was besieging
      Syracuse, we find Philodemus governor of the fort of Euryalus, on the top of Epipolae, and
      this he surrendered to the Romans on condition that he and his garrison should be allowed to
      depart uninjured to join Epicydes in Achradina. (<bibl n="Plb. 7.7">Plb. 7.7</bibl>; <bibl n="Liv. 24.6">Liv. 24.6</bibl>, <bibl n="Liv. 25.25">25.25</bibl>.) </p><byline>[<ref target="author.E.E">E.E</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
                </passage>
            </reply>
            </GetPassage>