The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian/Book XI/Chapter IX
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Chapter IX
[edit]- Hiero breaks the power of the Etruscans by sea.
WHEN Acestoridas was archon of Athens, and Cæsio Fabius and T. Virginius consuls of Rome, at that time Hiero king of Syracuse (at the request of the citizens of Cuma in Italy, by their ambassadors, who were greatly annoyed by the Etruscans) sent a considerable fleet to their assistance, who joining battle with the Estruscans of Tyrrhenia, in a sea-fight sunk several of their ships, and obtained a complete victory, and so the power of the Etruscans being broken, they returned to Syracuse.