He took Syracuse, and became dictator of the district.

But--as was the case with the tyrants of the French Revolution who took the place of those of the old regime (record later on in 'The Prelude')--the Syracusans found that they had only exchanged one form of rigour for another.

It is thus that Plutarch refers to the occurrence.
"Many statesmen and philosophers assisted him (_i.

e._ Dion); "as for instance, Eudemus, the Cyprian, on whose death Aristotle wrote his dialogue of the Soul, and Timonides the Leucadian." (See Plutarch's 'Dion'.) Timonides wrote an account of Dion's campaign in Sicily in certain letters to Speusippus, which are referred to both by Plutarch and by Diogenes Laertius,--Ed.] [Footnote Q: See the previous note [Footnote P directly above] .-- Ed.] [Footnote R: See the 'Orlando Furioso' of Ariosto, canto i.: 'La donna il palafreno a dietro volta, E per la selva a tutta briglia il caccia; Ne per la rara piu, che per la folta, La piu sicura e miglior via procaccia.
The lady turned her palfrey round, And through the forest drove him on amain; Nor did she choose the glade before the thickest wood, Riding the safest ever, and the better way.' Ed.] [Footnote S: See the 'Gerusalemme Liberata' of Tasso, canto vi.

Erminia is the heroine of 'Jerusalem Delivered'.