Timoleon
Plutarch
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. VI. Perrin, Bernadotte, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1918.
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 years[*](346-338 B.C.) handed over to her inhabitants a Sicily purged of her perpetual intestine miseries and complaints;