Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece - Chapter 189

[Chapter 44 The Concerns of Dionysius and the Funeral of the King of Sparta]

The three looked at each other.

Zantiparis hurriedly comforted him and said: “Agarcia, you did nothing wrong! We are all very grateful that you rescued us from the deadly battlefield in Asia Minor! As long as we stay in the alliance patiently, I believe that we will eventually get citizenship and The land is just a little unsuitable now. As for Sparta, you have to believe me and Timasson, at least in three or four years, they will not have any hostile actions against the Alliance!”

Greeks drink wine and like to add water , thinking that it’s not easy to get drunk and made a stupid move, but Agarcia didn’t drink beer tonight, all drank wine without water, and finally got drunk.

Tima Song and the others labored to help him home.

When they came out, the three of them sighed.

Crianno pouted and said, “He regrets calling us to Greater Greece, is he not going to help us anymore?!”

“Agarcia is not such a person!” Zantiparis shook his head: “I see He is under too much pressure recently and wants to drink and relax. However, we should really restrain those who don’t listen to persuasion!” The

two argued for a while, but when they turned around, they saw Timasong walking slowly with his head down, thinking about something.

“Tima Song, what are you thinking?! It’s time for us to go back to the dock!” Crianno shouted.

Tima Song looked at the two of them and said slowly and earnestly: “I still remember Davos’s favorite saying in the past, ‘It is better to rely on yourself than to rely on others’!”

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Phoebe Das arrived in Syracuse and was greeted with a grand welcome by Dionysius, who invited Phoebe Das and his entourage to his palace, set up a banquet, and accompany him in person.

Watching the seductive dance of the beautiful female slaves in the center of the banquet hall, Phoebe Das, who had exercised strong self-control in the military camp since he was a child, also felt dry, and he even took several sips of wine.

I heard that Lysander lived in those Asia Minor city-states under his control as a prince in the East, it should be like this!

Phoebe Das thought to himself.

“Phoebedas, I heard that you went to Dionia, did you get it done?” Dionysius asked casually at the top, the Spartan warship was in the Gulf of Taranto After turning around, someone had already spread the news to Syracuse.

“Yes, but it didn’t work.” Phoebe Da admitted, with some appreciation in his tone: “The Dionysian Alliance’s consuls and senate elders have a very tough attitude, even in the face of our Spartans,

They won’t give in at all!”

“Oh!” Dionysius said with a little surprise: “It sounds like you have a good impression of them?”

“Although the contact time is not long, I can feel that they highly respect war and peace. Victory, respect for capable generals and warriors, and training is very frequent, similar to our Spartans!” Phoebe Das did not hesitate to praise himself: “And this new alliance is developing very rapidly, I heard that it has been more than half a year. It used to be just a small city-state, but now it has three cities and two affiliated allies. I believe it will not be long before it will become a powerful force that dominates Greater Greece!”

After listening to Dionysius, he squeezed With a smile: “It’s a good thing, at least the natives of Greater Greece have met their opponents.” Having said that, he put down the wine glass he was holding, and the wine splashed on the table. The conversation turned to his army about to attack Carthage.

Phoebe Das looked in his eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

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On the way back to Sparta, Dorobyses, who had been holding back for a long time, asked, “Phoebedas, why are you praising Dionia at the banquet?”

“My praise will make Dionysius sleepless!” Phoebe Das smiled proudly: “Since Syracuse’s previous tyrant, Gron, Syracuse has been regarded as Sicily and great The lord of Greece. I remember the old man saying that Gron even sent his army north to Campania in the middle of the Apennine to defeat the Etruscans besieging Cume… And Dionysius had more ambitions , He used force to turn the Greek city-states in southeastern Sicily into Syracuse’s subordinates. Will he allow a powerful force to appear in Great Greece to threaten Syracuse’s status?!…Unfortunately, he immediately To attack Carthage, there is no way to take action against Dionysius in the short term…”

“Oh, so!” Dorobyses suddenly realized, but he immediately asked again: “Since Dionysius is against the great Greece is interested, then Dionia may not be as important as Lijim and Crotone in his heart.”

“Yes.” Phoebe Das admitted this point: “Dionia is now stronger than no. These traditional great Greek powers, but the speed of its development will arouse the vigilance of the most powerful Sicilian.”

Dorobyses recalled that when he was invited by Dionysius to inspect his army, The spectacular sight he saw made him involuntarily exclaim: “Speaking of which, Dionysius is really powerful. He was able to send an army of 50,000 to 60,000 people, and two or three thousand cavalry to attack Carthage!

” Although there are many, I don’t see many soldiers who are really good at fighting!” Half of what Phoebe Das said was true, and half of what he said was out of sour grapes, because even Sparta, who had become the overlord of Greece, could not send such a large number at one time. The strength of Syracuse and its affiliated city-states can be imagined.

Let Syracuse, Carthage, and Dionia kill each other!

Phoebe Das cursed in his heart.

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Entering the new year (398 BC), Turii-Castelron Avenue is fully built, and the few kilograms of Rotone captives from Dioria Also returned to Crotone because the six-month deadline had come.

For Davers, his mood is getting more and more nervous and excited, because Christoya’s belly is getting bigger and bigger, and it is less than a month before her due date.

At this time, news came from Niutum that Portentia officially announced his support for Akpirus’ son Lusau to retake Grummentum, and asked Cincinnag to return to Picocis, otherwise Portentia Ya will send troops to fight.

Cincinnagar suddenly became nervous, and he took the initiative to send messengers to the Grummentum tribes occupying the southern city, expressing his willingness to immediately implement their previous requirements, as long as they can reunite to jointly deal with the coming Potenti Asia’s army.

Cincinnagar’s soft service made these tribal leaders very happy, and they were afraid that Lusau would really retake Grummentum, and they would ask them to settle the account, because they knew that Lusau, like his father, was also a man who would retaliate .

Everyone thought this: it was external pressure that forced the two forces in Grummentum to compromise and reunite.

However, when the leaders happily came to the center of the city to prepare for peace talks with Cincinnagar, they did not expect that Cincinnagar had ambushed a large number of soldiers in advance, launched a violent attack, wiped out all the leaders participating in the meeting, and then launched a surprise attack.

The tribe of Nancheng was killed because of its leader and neglected its defenses, resulting in heavy casualties under the premeditated attack of the Picosses. Some soldiers surrendered, and some escaped from Grummentum City.

In the face of the military threat of Portentia, Cincinnagar unified Grummentum in one fell swoop.

Knowing this news, even Davos had to admire Cincinnager’s decisiveness and ruthlessness, but he didn’t know that Cincinnager could do so, most of it was learned from the painful memory of being attacked from behind by the Vig people. .

And soon, Sesta sent a report to the Senate, saying: Due to Cincinnag’s killing in Grummentum, some Lucarians fled to Niutum, and Picosi The small tribes caught between the two major forces were afraid of being involved in the war and fled south one after another, causing the number of reserve citizens registered in Niutum to surge to 8,000.

Niutum had neither enough land to distribute nor was it able to support such a large population, and demanded that some Lukarians be relocated to Turii.

Davos and the elders had repeated discussions, especially the stability of Niutum and the good performance of the Lucanians during this period, so that everyone finally reached a consensus: agree to relocate.

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Phoebe Das returned to Sparta, and his report on his mission to Dionia did not attract the attention of the Council of Elders.

One of the reasons is that he has always acted in his own way, which made the Spartan elders who knew him well feel a little disgusted by his repeated emphasis on “The Dionysian League is disrespectful and arrogant to Sparta, and must be punished.” Instead, they concluded that he was He caused trouble himself, which caused such a result.

The more important reason is that the elders do not have the energy to deal with this small matter now, because Aquis, one of the two kings of Sparta, died of illness.

Since Homer’s time, Sparta has practiced double-king rule. The king, known as the direct descendant of Hercules, was born from two hereditary royal families: one is the Ajidai family located in the center of Sparta. , one is the family of Euriponides from southern Laconia.

Aquis was born into the Euriponides family.

Although in this era, due to the rise of democracy, the kingship of Sparta has been greatly restricted, but it still enjoys many honors, especially when he died, the entire Spartan territory was preparing for the funeral of Aquis: The cavalry ran all over Laconia, announcing the news of the death of King Aquis; the women beat the iron pot and reported the news around the city of Sparta; after learning the news, each household must send two free men, one male and one Women wore mourning attire for filial piety; the Pythias were also obliged to send a fixed number to funerals organized by the council of elders.

The funeral lasted ten days, during which no public affairs could be conducted, and after ten days the first business of the elders was to elect a new king.