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Timoleon and then
* With peace finally achieved with Carthage, Timoleon of Syracuse is able to depose two more tyrants in Sicily and then retires into private life.
Father Timoleon Raimondi, who was then the bishop of the Colony, convinced Rome to send the Lasallian Brothers to the British Colony.

Timoleon and into
* Dionysius II goes into exile once more after the successful invasion by Timoleon of Corinth.
With a miscellaneous levy of about 12, 000 men, most of them mercenaries, Timoleon marched westwards across the island into the neighbourhood of Selinus and won a great and decisive victory on the Crimissus.
So to ease their minds, and free them from any superstitious thoughts or forebodings of evil, Timoleon halted, and concluded an address suitable to the occasion, by saying, that a garland of triumph was here luckily brought them, and had fallen into their hands of its own accord, as an anticipation of victory: the same with which the Corinthians crown the victors in the Isthmian games, accounting chaplets of parsley the sacred wreath proper to their country ; parsley being at that time still the emblem of victory at the Isthmian, as it is now at the Nemean sports ; and it is not so very long ago that the pine first began to be used in its place .” “” ( Plutarch, Life of Timoleon ).</ ref > Victors could also be honored with a statue or an ode.
Timoleon decided to respond by advancing into Carthaginian territory to avoid Greek territory being plundered by the Carthaginian forces.

Timoleon and life
Timaeus was one of the chief authorities used by Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch ( in his life of Timoleon ).
When his brother Timophanes, whose life he had saved in battle, took possession of the acropolis of Corinth and made himself master of the city, Timoleon, after an ineffectual protest, tacitly acquiesced while the friends who accompanied him put Timophanes to death.

Timoleon and any
Its name is again mentioned in 345 BCE, when Timoleon touched there on his expedition to Sicily, but it does not appear to have taken any part in his favour.

Timoleon and though
Akragas never fully recovered its former status, though it revived to some extent under Timoleon in the latter part of the 4th century.

Timoleon and only
According to Plutarch, the Carthaginian force numbered 70, 000 and included many four horsed war chariots and Timoleon commanded only 5000 foot and a 1000 cavalry against them.

Timoleon and at
Landing at Tauromenium ( Taormina ) in the summer, Timoleon faces two armies, one under Dionysius and the other under Hicetas ( tyrant of nearby Leontini ), who has also called in Carthaginian forces.
It reappears in history at a later period, when Corinthian soldiers en route to join Timoleon on his expedition to Syracuse are blockaded there by Carthaginian ships.
The new settlement seems to have risen rapidly to prosperity, and was apparently already a considerable town at the time of the expedition of Timoleon in 345 BC.
A Greek force of about 2, 000 men had landed at Kolymbari on 3 February 1897, and its commanding officer, Colonel Timoleon Vassos declared that he was taking over the island " in the name of the King of the Hellenes " and that he was announcing the union of Crete with Greece.
A Greek force of 1, 500 men had landed at Kolymbari on 1 February 1897, and its commanding officer, Colonel Timoleon Vassos declared that he was taking over the island " in the name of the King of the Hellenes " and that he was announcing the union of Crete with Greece.
Colonel Timoleon Vassos and his son at the Greek headquarter in Crete
The first Vicar Apostolic was Giovanni Timoleon Raimondi, titular Bishop of Acanthus ( consecrated 22 November 1874 ), who died at Mission House, Glenealy, Hong Kong, 27 September 1894.

Timoleon and Syracuse
* After his surrender to the Corinthian general Timoleon, who takes over as ruler of Syracuse, the former tyrant, Dionysius II, is allowed to retire to Corinth to live in exile, although he dies within the year.
Timoleon of Syracuse meets this large Carthaginian army in the Battle of the Crimissus in the west of Sicily and achieves a brilliant victory against superior odds.
By shrewd tactics Timoleon defeats his enemies and occupies Syracuse.
The most serious charge against Timaeus is that he wilfully distorted the truth, when influenced by personal considerations: thus, he was less than fair to Dionysius I of Syracuse and Agathocles, while loud in praise of his favourite Timoleon.
Timoleon was thus master of Syracuse.
* Hamilcar — Punic strategus against Timoleon of Syracuse
Yet later his son Gisgo was given the command of seventy ships of Carthage manned by Greek mercenaries and sent to Lilybaeum, after which peace was negotiated by Carthage with Timoleon of Syracuse, c. 340.
The forces of Syracuse led by Timoleon were victorious.
Soon after Timoleon had ejected Dionysius II from Syracuse a large Carthaginian army landed in Sicily.

Timoleon and island
The long series of internal struggles had weakened Syracuse's power on the island, and Timoleon tried to remedy this, defeating the Carthaginians in 339 BC near the Krimisos river.

Timoleon and .
A democratic government was installed by Timoleon in 345 BC.
* The Corinthian general Timoleon spreads his rule over Sicily, removing a number of other tyrants and preparing Sicily for another threatened Carthaginian invasion.
It is next mentioned in 344 BC, when it was one of the first cities that declared in favor of Timoleon after his landing in Sicily.
* 411 BC – Timoleon, Greek statesman and general ( approximate date ) ( d. 337 BC )
The Carthaginians dispatch some mercenaries to extend the conflict between Timoleon and the Sicilian tyrants.
The Syracusan constitution is changed by Timoleon with the new constitution designed to have safeguards against tyranny.
Timoleon invites new settlers from Greece to come to Sicily.
* Timoleon, Greek statesman and general ( b. c. 411 BC )
The Corinthian general Timoleon is chosen to lead a liberation force to Sicily.
* Timoleon, Greek statesman and general ( approximate date ) ( d. 337 BC )
* Timophanes, along with a number of colleagues, including his brother Timoleon, takes possession of the acropolis of Corinth and Timophanes makes himself master of the city.
Later, Timoleon, after ineffectual protests, tacitly acquiesces to his colleagues putting Timophanes to death for his actions.
Perhaps the greatest testament to his influence over Sicily is how his statue was spared as Timoleon tried to erase all memory of the reign of tyrants when Sicily became a democracy 150 years after Gelo ’ s death.
Timoleon ( Greek: Τιμολέων ), son of Timodemus, of Corinth ( ca.

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