while as for the rest of Sicily, part of it was ruined and already wholly without inhabitants by reason of the wars,
Edition :
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. 6.
Remark :
ocitation: The sentence starts in 1.1 but ends in 1.2. victim: We assume Sicily was depopulated because one part of the populace died in the wars and the other part fled.