After Timoleon had returned, the Syracusans brought the wives and daughters of Hicetas and his friends to public trial, and then put them to death. And this would seem to have been the most displeasing thing in Timoleon's career; for if he had opposed it, the women would not have been thus put to death.
Edition :
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. 6.
Remark :
victim: It is only an assumption, that they were Syracusans, based on the Hicetas' Syracusan origin. motive: It is said in 33.2, that these executions were a revenge for the murder of Dion's family by Hicetas.
