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This Cadmus had at an earlier time received from his father the kingly
power at Cos in a right good condition, and had of his own free will
and without the approach of any danger, from pure love of justice,
given up his power into the hands of the people at large, and departed
to Sicily; where he assisted in the Samian seizure and settlement of
Zancle, or Messana, as it was afterwards called. Upon this
occasion Gelo chose him to send into Greece, because he was
acquainted with the proofs of honesty which he had given. And now he
added to his former honourable deeds an action which is not the least of
his merits. With a vast sum entrusted to him and completely in his
power, so that he might have kept it for his own use if he had liked,
he did not touch it; but when the Greeks gained the sea-fight and
Xerxes fled away with his army, he brought the whole treasure back
with him to Sicily.
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