[187] Plutarch, Dion, c. 24.
[188] Plutarch, Dion, c. 26; Diodor. xvi. 10, 11.
[189] Plutarch, Dion, c. 25.
[190] Thucyd. vi. 104.
[191] Diodor. xvi. 10.
[192] Plutarch, Dion, c. 26, 27; Diodor. xvi. 9.
[193] Plutarch, (Dion, c. 27) gives the numbers who joined him at about five thousand men, which is very credible. Diodorus gives the number exaggerated, at twenty thousand (xvi. 9).
[194] Plutarch, Dion, c. 27. These picturesque details about the march of Dion are the more worthy of notice, as Plutarch had before him the narrative of Timonides, a companion of Dion, and actually engaged in the expedition. Timonides wrote an account of what passed to Speusippus at Athens, doubtless for the information of Plato and their friends in the Academy (Plutarch, Dion, c. 31-35).
Diogenes Laertius mentions also a person named Simonides who wrote to Speusippus, τὰς ἱστορίας ἐν αἷς κατατετάχει τὰς πράξεις Δίωνός τε καὶ Βίωνος (iv. 1, 5). Probably Simonides may be a misnomer for Timonides.
Arrian, the author of the Anabasis of Alexander, had written narratives of the exploits both of Dion and Timoleon. Unfortunately these have not been preserved; indeed Photius himself seems never to have seen them (Photius, Codex, 92).