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Updated: June 26, 2025
The rebels had first controlled the centre and some part of the South Western portion of the island, the region between Enna and Agrigentum; but now they had pushed their conquests up to the East, had reached the coast and had gained possession of Catana and Tauromenium. The devastation of the conquered districts is said to have been more terrible than that which followed on the Punic War.
The words of Eunus when, at the beginning of the revolt, he claimed Enna as the metropolis of the new nation, and the conduct of his followers in sparing the grandeur and comfort which had fallen into their hands, are sufficient proofs that the revolted slaves, in spite of their possession of the seaports of Catana and Tauromenium, had no intention of escaping from Sicily.
The bystanders believed that the god had snatched him away in his intoxicated legion. In this hour of sorrow Karnis had proved himself her friend, and a few months after Herse had become his wife and gone with him to Tauromenium in Sicily.
Papias had stopped his piping too, and was sitting in the corner where Orpheus sat to write his letter to Tauromenium." "I know," said Orpheus, "the inkstand was there, that the steward of the inn had lent us the day before." "Just so; and when mother came in, there he was, dipping his finger in the ink, and painting his white dress you can study the pattern at your leisure.
At Alexandria he had been far better acquainted with the theatre than with the Museum or the school of the Serapeum; nay, as an amateur, he had often sung in the chorus there and acted as deputy for the regular leader. The theatre in his native town of Tauromenium had also been a famous one of old, but, at the time of his return, it had sunk to a very low ebb.
His purpose was to make the theatre the centre of a reaction against the influence of the Christians, by vieing with the Church in its efforts to win back the renegade heathen and confirming the faithful in their adhesion. The Greeks of Tauromenium should be reminded from the stage-boards of the might of the old gods and the glories of their past.
Off Mylae, a place famous for having witnessed the first naval victory of the Romans, Agrippa encountered the fleet of Sext. Pompeius; but Sextus, with the larger portion of his ships, gave Agrippa the slip, and sailing eastward fell suddenly upon Octavian's squadron off Tauromenium.
Papias had stopped his piping too, and was sitting in the corner where Orpheus sat to write his letter to Tauromenium." "I know," said Orpheus, "the inkstand was there, that the steward of the inn had lent us the day before." "Just so; and when mother came in, there he was, dipping his finger in the ink, and painting his white dress you can study the pattern at your leisure.
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