For he lived to see the violent deaths of his grown-up sons
Edition :
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. 6.
Remark :
perpetrator: This was done by the people of Locris as a revenge for Dionysius' cruel regime. The information is taken from Pauly-Wissowas Realencyclopaedie, Vol. V,1, "Dionysios". long-term consequence: The bodies are cast into the sea. This is mentioned later in the paragraph.