sicels

Life events

• The Messinese forced the Naxians behind their walls and laid waste their country.(Book 4 · Chapter 12 · Part 4 · 📍 Naxos)
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  • “The first day they forced the Naxians to keep their walls, and laid waste their country;”
• The Naxians routed the Messinese, killing more than a thousand, and the Sicels cut off many others in retreat.(Book 4 · Chapter 12 · Part 4 · 📍 Naxos)
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  • “The Sicels came down from the high country in great numbers, to aid against the Messinese; and the Naxians, elated at the sight, and animated by a belief that the Leontines and their other Hellenic allies were coming to their support, suddenly sallied out from the town, and attacked and routed the Messinese, killing more than a thousand of them; while the remainder suffered severely in their retreat home, being attacked by the barbarians on the road, and most of them cut off.”
• Independent Sicels joined the Athenians and brought corn, and sometimes money, to the army.(Book 6 · Chapter 20 · Part 4)
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  • “the peoples of the interior who had never been otherwise than independent, with few exceptions, at once joined the Athenians, and brought down corn to the army, and in some cases even money.”
• The Athenians forced some Sicels who refused to join them to do so.(Book 6 · Chapter 20 · Part 4)
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  • “The Athenians marched against those who refused to join, and forced some of them to do so”
• The Athenians requested horses from the Sicels and Egesta and prepared materials for circumvallation.(Book 6 · Chapter 20 · Part 4 · 📍 Egesta)
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  • “They also sent round to the Sicels and to Egesta, desiring them to send them as many horses as possible, and meanwhile prepared bricks, iron, and all other things necessary for the work of circumvallation”

Book 6 · Chapter 18 · Part 1

• with Italus (Italus is identified as a king of the Sicels.) “and the country got its name of Italy from Italus, a king of the Sicels, so called.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.