Hiero Sentence Examples

He was the son of Pheidias, an astronomer, and was on intimate terms with, if not related to, Hiero, king of Syracuse, and Gelo his son.

The island was perhaps occupied by Greek settlers even before Cumae; its Eretrian and Chalcidian inhabitants abandoned it about Soo B.C. owing to an eruption, and it is said to have been deserted almost at once by the greater part of the garrison which Hiero I.

Thus he devised for Hiero engines of war which almost terrified the Romans, and which protracted the siege of Syracuse for three years.

Hiero asked him to give an illustration of his contention that a very great weight could be moved by a very small force.

It is believed to occupy the site of the ancient Aetna, a settlement founded by the colonists whom Hiero I.

Gelon, who seized the tyranny on his death, became master of Syracuse in 485 B.C., and transferred his capital thither with half the inhabitants of Gela, leaving his brother Hiero to rule over the rest.

A better time began under Hiero II., who had fought under Pyrrhus and who rose from the rank of general of the Syracusan army to be tyrant - king, as he came to be soon styled - about 270.

Hiero's rule was kindly and enlightened, combining good order with a fair share of liberty and self-government.

Hieronymus, the grandson of Hiero, thought fit to ally himself with Carthage; he did not live, however, to see the mischief he had done, for he fell in a conspiracy which he had wantonly provoked by his arrogance and cruelty.

There was a fierce 1 The laws of Hiero are often mentioned with approval in Cicero's speeches against Verres.

To the west of the amphitheatre is the foundation of the great altar erected by Hiero II.

As stated first by Archimedes, the principle asserts the obvious fact that a body displaces its own volume of water; and he utilized it in the problem of the determination of the adulteration of the crown of Hiero.

In 474 the Etruscan fleet was destroyed by Hiero I.

They came to war with Hiero II.

Thrasydaeus, son of Theron of Agrigentum, seems to have ruled the city oppressively, but an appeal made to Hiero of Syracuse, Gelon's brother, was betrayed by him to Theron; the latter massacred all his enemies and in the following year resettled the town.

Gelo was followed by his brother Hiero (478-467), the special subject of the songs of Pindar.

Acragas H meanwhile flourished under Thero; but a war between him and Hiero led to slaughter and new settlement at Himera.

These transplantings from city to city began under Gelo and went on under Hiero (q.v.).

When the power of Hiero passed in 467 B.C. to his brother Thrasybulus the freedom of Syracuse was won by a combined movement of Greeks and Sicels, and the Greek cities gradually settled down as they had been before the tyrannies, only with a change to democracy in their constitutions.

Epicharmus (540-450), carried as a babe to Sicily, is a link between native Siceliots and the strangers invited by Hiero; as the founder of the local Sicilian comedy, he ranks among Siceliots.

The reign of Dionysius was less brilliant in the way of art and literature than that of Hiero.

Agathocles now put his name, first without, and then with, the kingly title, though never his own likeness - Hiero II.

Hiero, claiming descent from Gelo, pressed the Mamertines hard.

Carthaginian troops held the Messanian citadel against Hiero, while another party in Messana craved the help of the head of Italy.

The exploits of Hiero had already won him the kingly title (270) at Syracuse, and he was the representative of Hellenic life and independence throughout the island.

When Rome entered Sicily as the ally of the Mamertines, Hiero became the ally of Carthage.

The kingdom of Hiero was the first-fruits out of Italy of the system by which alliance with Rome grew into subjection to Rome.

Within the Roman province the new state of things called forth much discontent; but Hiero remained the faithful ally of Rome through a long life.

The result was revolt against Rome, the great siege and capture of the city, the addition of Hiero's kingdom to the Roman province.

The poet, himself of Syracuse, went to and fro between the courts of Hiero and Ptolemy Philadelphus; but his poetry is essentially Sicilian.

With the incorporation of the kingdom of Hiero into the Roman province independent Sicilian history comes to an end for many ages.

In one part of the island the Roman people stepped into the position of Carthage, in another part into that of King Hiero.

The allied cities kept their several terms of alliance; the free cities kept their freedom; elsewhere the land paid to the Roman people, according to the law of Hiero, the tithe which it had paid to Hiero.

The praetor, after the occupation of Syracuse, dwelled there in the palace of Hiero, as in the capital of the island.

Very little is heard of Catina in history until 476 B.C., when Hiero I.

During the First Punic War it belonged to the kingdom of Hiero, and after his death it enjoyed an exceptionally favoured position with regard to Rome, being like Messana and Netum, a civitas foederata.

Early in life he went to Megara in Sicily, and after its destruction by Gelo (484) removed to Syracuse, where he spent the rest of his life at the court of Hiero, and died at the age of ninety or (according to a statement in Lucian, Macrobii, 25) ninety-seven.

The usual view is that Theocritus went first from Syracuse to Cos, and then, after suing in vain for the favour of Hiero, took up his residence permanently in Egypt.

It was built in 1693, after the destruction by an earthquake of the old town of Occhiala to the north; the latter, on account of the similarity of name, is generally identified with Echetla, a frontier city between Syracusan and Carthaginian territory in the time of Hiero II., which appears to have been originally a Sicel city in which Greek civilization prevailed from the 5th century onwards.

Hesychius says the Thracian women made sheets of hemp. Moschion (about 200 B.C.) records the use of hempen ropes for rigging the ship "Syracusia" built for Hiero II.

More important, as being doubtless connected with the discovery of the principle in hydrostatics which bears his name and the foundation by him of that whole science, is the story of Hiero's reference to him of the question whether a crown made for him and purporting to be of gold, did not actually contain a proportion of silver.

What form of government was established after his fall is uncertain; we know only that, after a long interval, Theron became tyrant (488-473) but his son Thrasydaeus was expelled after an unsuccessful war with Hiero in 472 and a democracy established.

Hiero through his long reign was the stanch friend and ally of Rome in her struggles with Carthage; but his paternal despotism, under which Greek life and civilization at Syracuse had greatly flourished, was unfortunately succeeded by the rule of a man who wholly reversed his policy.

Sicily in truth never had a more hopeful champion than Hiero II.

The reign of Hiero was the last time of independent Greek culture in Sicily.