Sicily were undoubtedly prosperous ih the sixth century before Christ; but they were far more prosperous in the fifth. And with the greatest of Sikeliot cities, the time, not of freedom, not of the truest prosperity, but of the highest position in Hellas and the world, comes later still. It was in the fourth century that Syracuse outshone all other European cities. And that was a time when none of the other Sikeliot and Italiot cities held the same relative position in the world which they had once held. Syracuse rose in truth very largely by the misfortunes of her neighbours.

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