[681] Mannert places the boundary of Sikels and Sikans at these mountains: Otto Siefert (Akragas und sein Gebiet, Hamburg, 1845, p. 53) places it at the Gemelli Colles, rather more to the westward,—thus contracting the domain of the Sikans: compare Diodor. iv, 82-83.
[682] Thucyd. vi, 2.
[683] Mr. Fynes Clinton discusses the era of Syracuse, Fasti Hellenici, ad B. C. 734, and the same work, vol. ii. Appendix xi, p. 264.
[684] See Colonel Leake, notes on the Topography of Syracuse, p. 41.
[685] Athenæ. iv, 167; Strabo, ix, p. 380.
[686] Diodor. Frag. Lit. viii, p. 24; Plutarch, Narrat. Amator. p. 772; Schol. Apollon. Rhod. iv, 1212.
[687] Polyænus (v. 5. 1) describes the stratagem of Theoklês on this occasion.
[688] Polyænus details a treacherous stratagem whereby this expulsion is said to have been accomplished (v, 5. 2).
[689] Thucydid. vi, 3. Ὕβλωνος τοῦ βασιλέως προδόντος τὴν χώραν καὶ καθηγησαμένου.
[690] Thucydid. vi, 4; Diodor. Excerpt. Vatican. ed. Maii, Fragm. xiii, p. 13; Pausanias, viii, 46, 2.