The same summer, the inhabitants of Camarina and Gela in Sicily first made an armistice with each other, after which embassies from all the other Sicilian cities assembled at Gela to try to bring about a pacification. After many expressions of opinion on one side and the other, according to the griefs and pretensions of the different parties complaining, Hermocrates, son of Hermon, a Syracusan, the most influential man among them, addressed the following words to the assembly:—
The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.
Hermocrates — a life Hermon — a candidate entry
History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides — translated by Richard Crawley, 1874
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