Timoleon

Plutarch

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. VI. Perrin, Bernadotte, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1918.

So prosperous was the course of his enterprises, and such was the speed with which Fortune crowned the beauty of his achievements.

When he had become master of the citadel, he did not repeat the experience of Dion,[*](See the Dion, chapter liii. 1. ) nor did he spare the place on account of the beauty and great cost of its architecture, but guarding against the suspicions which had brought calumny and then destruction upon his predecessor, he made proclamation that all Syracusans who wished should come with implements of iron and help in the demolition of the tyrants’ bulwarks.