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Pyrrhus was the husband of Agathocles's daughter, and his son Alexander, then sixteen years of age, was Agathocles's grandson. Both were in every respect natural heirs of the ambitious schemes of the ruler of Syracuse; and if her freedom was at an end, Syracuse might find compensation in becoming the capital of a Hellenic empire of the West. League between Rome and Carthage Third Year of the War
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.
The story is too shocking to be fully believed, but it is said that this grandson first murdered Agathocles's son and heir, his own uncle, in order that he might himself succeed to the throne his own father, who would have been the next heir, being dead.
Pyrrhus was the husband of Agathocles's daughter, and his son Alexander, then sixteen years of age, was Agathocles's grandson. Both were in every respect natural heirs of the ambitious schemes of the ruler of Syracuse; and if her freedom was at an end, Syracuse might find compensation in becoming the capital of a Hellenic empire of the West. League between Rome and Carthage Third Year of the War
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