Sicel

Hellenic allies made an attack upon the Sicel fort of Inessa, a

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Many of the Sicel tribes who had hitherto been hesitating now joined the

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Carthage with a proposal of friendship; likewise to Tyrrhenia, since some of the cities there were offering of themselves to join them in the war: to the various Sicel tribes90 and to the Egestaeans they issued orders that they were to send as many horse as possible.

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Nicias, having previous information, sent word to the Sicel allies of Athens who commanded the road, such as the

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After their misfortune in the Sicel country, the Syracusans deferred their intended attack for a time.

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The dwellers in the plain who were subjects of the Syracusans mostly stood aloof, but the Sicel settlements in the interior (which had always been independent) at once, with a few exceptions, joined the

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To some of the Sicel towns they sent troops, to others envoys; they also garrisoned the forts in the territory of

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Athenians, aware of the approach of the Syracusans, took all their own army and Sicel or other allies on board their ships and smaller craft, and sailed away at nightfall to Syracuse.

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Sicel town of which the citadel was held by the Syracusans.

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They next sailed round to their Sicel allies and bade them send reinforcements.

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