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These strange "Heliopolites" may, according to the probable opinion which a friend has expressed to me, be accounted for by supposing that the liberated slaves constituted themselves citizens of a town Heliopolis not otherwise mentioned or perhaps having an existence merely in imagination for the moment which derived its name from the God of the Sun so highly honoured in Syria.
At the great slave-market at Delos and in the Attic silver-mines about the same period the revolted slaves had to be put down by force of arms. The war against Aristonicus and his "Heliopolites" in Asia Minor was in substance a war of the landholders against the revolted slaves. But worst of all, naturally, was the condition of Sicily, the chosen land of the plantation system.
At the great slave-market at Delos and in the Attic silver-mines about the same period the revolted slaves had to be put down by force of arms. The war against Aristonicus and his "Heliopolites" in Asia Minor was in substance a war of the landholders against the revolted slaves. But worst of all, naturally, was the condition of Sicily, the chosen land of the plantation system.
These strange "Heliopolites" may, according to the probable opinion which a friend has expressed to me, be accounted for by supposing that the liberated slaves constituted themselves citizens of a town Heliopolis not otherwise mentioned or perhaps having an existence merely in imagination for the moment which derived its name from the God of the Sun so highly honoured in Syria.
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