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There was something so plausible in this glaring falsehood, which represented Xenophon as the author of the renewed project, once his own and something so improbable in the fact that the other officers should spontaneously have renounced their own strong opinions to take up his that we can hardly be surprised at the ready credence which Neon's calumny found among the army.
Soon after Hicetas having left Syracuse for the purpose of cutting off Neon's source of provisions a sudden sally was made, the blockading army taken by surprise and driven back with loss, and another large section of the city was added to Timoleon's gains. This success was quickly followed by another. The reinforcement from Corinth had landed at Thurii, on the east coast of Italy.
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