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230 mSTOEY OF GREECE. eminently contributed to this victory, received from their fellow- citizens a crown of honor, and a reward of one mina per head.^ The meagre annals, wherein these interesting events are indi- cated rather than described, tell us scarcely anything of the political ai'rangements which resulted from so important a vic- tory. Probably the Gelonians were expelled : but we may assume as certain, that the separate fortifications of the island and Achradina were abolished, and that from henceforward there was only one fortified city, until the time of the despot Diony- sius, more than fifty years afterwards.2 Meanwhile the rest of Sicily had experienced disorders analo- gous in character to those of Syracuse. At Gela, at Agrigen- tum, at Himera, the reaction against the Geloniaa dynasty had brought back in crowds the dispossessed exiles ; who, claiming restitution of their properties and influence, found their demands sustained by the population generally. The Katanseans, whom Hiero had driven from their own city to Leontini, in order that he might convert Katana into his ov, n settlement -^tna, assem- bled in arms and allied themselves with the Sikel prince Duke- tius, to reconquer their former home and to restore to the Sikels that which Hiero had taken from them for enlargement of the ^tnsean territory. They were aided by the Syracusans, to whom the neighborhood of these Hieronian partisans was dan- gerous : but they did not accomplish their object until after a long contest and several battles with the ^tnaans. A conven- tion was at length concluded, by which the latter evacuated Ka- tana and were allowed to occupy the town and territoiy, — seemingly Sikel, — of Ennesia, or Inessa, upon which they bestowed the name of .ZEtna,^ with monuments commemorating Hiero as the founder, — while the tomb of the latter at Katana was demolished by the restored inhabitants. These conflicts, disturbing the peace of all Sicily, came to be so intolerable, that a general congress was held between the various cities to adjust them. It was determined by joint reso- ' Diodor. xi, 72, 73, 76. " Diodorus, xir, 7. ^ Diodorus, xi, 76 ; Strabo, vi, 268. Compai-e, as an analogous event, the destruction of the tomb of Agnon, the cekist of Amphipolis, after the revolt of that city from Athens (Thucyd. v, 11).