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Timoleon
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A celebrated general of ancient Greece, born, of a noble family, in Corinth, about 395 B.C.; ardently espoused the cause of the Greeks in Sicily, who were in danger of forfeiting their liberties to the Carthaginians, and headed an army to Syracuse, where he defeated and drove out Dionysius the Younger, subsequently cleared the island of the oppressors, and brought back order and good government, after which he quietly returned to private life, and spent his later years at Syracuse, beloved by the Sicilians as their liberator and benefactor; d . 337 B.C.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Timoleon'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/t/timoleon.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Timoleon'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/t/timoleon.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
