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That there were negotiations with Gelo is almost certain, but the account here given is clearly unhistorical, whether we trace its origin to some Syracusan satirist (Freeman, S. ii. 515 f.) or to some funeral oration in the Ceramicus with its customary laudations of Athens. Cf. ix. 26 f., and Meyer, F. ii. 219 f. Nor are matters mended by transferring the scene to Corinth and rationalizing H.'s account, as seems to have been done by Timaeus (Polyb. xii. 26 b; fr. 87; F. H. G. i. 213). The essential points, the debate about hegemony and the self-laudations of both sides, remain the same.

πᾶσαν τὴν Ἑλλάδα: the whole of Hellas including the colonies. There is some exaggeration here as in πάντα just above.

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