catanaeans

Updated: July 24, 2025

By a false message that the Catanaeans were ready to assist in expelling the Athenians, he induced the Syracusans to proceed thither in great force, and he availed himself of their absence to sail with his whole fleet into the Great Harbour of Syracuse, where he landed near the mouth of the Anapus.

Sir William Smith - A Smaller history of Greece : From the earliest times to the Roman conquest