6. Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse from 405 to 367.

7. I.e. because he had run out of money.

8. ‘Favoured the group in power’: dunasteutikē, literally, ‘appropriate to a power-group’ (dunasteia, cf. Il x, n. 10).

9. Assassinated by his brother Timolcon, c. 365.