[1047] Diodor. xiv, 54.
Leptines was brother of Dionysius (xiv, 102; xv, 7), though he afterwards married the daughter of Dionysius,—a marriage not condemned by Grecian sentiment.
[1048] Justin, xx, 5. One of these Carthaginians of rank, who, from political enmity to Hanno, wrote letters in Greek to communicate information to Dionysius, was detected and punished as a traitor. On this occasion, the Carthaginian senate is said to have enacted a law, forbidding all citizens to learn Greek,—either to write it or to speak it.
[1049] Diodor. xiv, 54; Polyænus, v, 10, 1.
[1050] Diodor. xiv, 55.
[1051] Diodor. xiv, 55.
[1052] Diodor. xiv, 56, 57. τῶν ἰδίων ἱππέων ἐν Συρακούσαις ὄντων, etc. διὰ τῶν πεπτωκότων τειχῶν εἰσβιασάμενοι, etc. τὰ τείχη καταπεπτωκότα, etc.
Compare another example of inattention to the state of their walls, on the part of the Messenians (xix, 65).
[1053] Kleon and the Athenians took Torônê by a similar manœuvre (Thucyd. v, 2).
[1054] Diodor. xiv, 57.