Agathocles

[uh-gath-uh-kleez]

noun

1. 361–289 b.c., tyrant of Syracuse 317–289.

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Consider Agathocles, the Syracuse tyrant who came to power by slaughtering his fellow citizens.

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The Agrigentines won it back in 309, but it soon fell under the power of Agathocles.

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In the meantime, the Mamertines, a body of Campanian mercenaries who had been employed by Agathocles, had seized the stronghold of Messana, whence they harassed the Syracusans.

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Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse, was given by the treacherous Maenon a poisoned toothpick which soon rendered his mouth incurably gangrened, and deprived him of the power of speech.

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Here are the gardens, lawns, and shrubberies he planted; on this turf-grown terrace beneath his study windows he paced as he planned his compositions, and here, at the age of eighty-three, he evolved "Irene" and parts of "Agathocles;" near by are his fount, his arbored promenade, the shaded spot where he wrote in summer days, the place of the lightning-rod made for him by Franklin.

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