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This supply sufficed for the militia stationed on the heights of Taganana, in the Valle Seco, near the streams of the Punta del Hidalgo, Texina, Baxamar, the Valley of San Andres, and lastly the line of Santa Cruz, Guadamogete, and Candelaria, whose posts cover more than twenty-four miles of coast between the north-west and the south of the island.
The king was so anxious in respect to these children, on account of Archagathus, that he determined to send them with their mother to Egypt, in order to place them beyond the reach of their merciless nephew. Texina was very unwilling to consent to such a measure.
Then, not being willing to wait until the old king himself should die, he began to form plots against his life, and against the lives of the remaining members of the family. Although several of Agathocles's sons were dead, having been destroyed by violence, or having fallen in war, he had a wife, named Texina, and two children still remaining alive.
His adventures. Agathocles's flight from Africa. Terrible consequences. The sea dyed with blood. Shocking story. Texina and her children. Extraordinary story. Mænon's contrivance for administering poison. Dangers of usurpation. Mænon's career. Pyrrhus receives two tempting invitations. Pyrrhus's perplexity. He decides to go to Sicily. He makes great preparations at Tarentum.
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