Dialogue

 1 Text|         place, and fifty-one men came to the front as rulers of
 2 Text|      these thoughts in my mind I came to Italy and Sicily on my
 3 Text|     despots.~After that event he came to the conclusion that this
 4 Text|   occasion I left home and again came on an urgent summons from
 5 Text|       who put the question why I came a second time, I will deal
 6 Text|     Athenian and friend of Dion, came as his ally to the court
 7 Text|           For persistent rumours came from Sicily that Dionysios
 8 Text|         this, it seems, Archytes came to the court of Dionysios.
 9 Text|  interests.~When this invitation came to me at that time in such
10 Text|         necessary to it. Thus it came about that I said to Dionysios
11 Text|   happened, is the reason why it came about that I did not continue
12 Text|       season. On the next day he came to me and made a plausible
13 Text|        The first reflection that came up, leading the way in my
14 Text|       day Eurybios and Theodotes came to me in the evening, both
15 Text| mercenaries. Various people then came to me, among them those
16 Text|          of the ships’ crews who came from Athens, my own fellow
17 Text|           one of themselves, who came and entreated Dionysios