§14.107.1τοῦ δʼ ἔτους τούτου διεληλυθότος Ἀθήνησι μὲν ἦρχε Πυργίων, ἐν δὲ τῇ Ῥώμῃ τὴν ὕπατον ἀρχὴν μετέλαβον χιλίαρχοι τέσσαρες, Λεύκιος Λουκρήτιος, Σερούιος Σουλπίκιος, Γάιος Αἰμίλιος, Ὀλυμπιὰς δʼ ἤχθη ὀγδόη πρὸς ταῖς ἐνενήκοντα, καθʼ ἣν ἐνίκα Σώσιππος Ἀθηναῖος.
When this year had passed, Pyrgion was archon in Athens, and in Rome four military tribunes, Lucius Lucretius, Servius Sulpicius, and Gaius Aemilius, succeeded to the consular power, and the ninety-eighth Olympiad was celebrated, in which Sosippus of Athens won the stadium race.
§14.107.2τούτων δὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν παρειληφότων Διονύσιος ὁ τῶν Συρακοσίων δυνάστης πορευθεὶς εἰς Ἱππώνιον μετὰ τῆς δυνάμεως, τοὺς μὲν κατοικοῦντας ἐν αὐτῇ μετῴκισεν εἰς τὰς Συρακούσας, τὴν δὲ πόλιν κατασκάψας τοῖς Λοκροῖς προσεμέρισε τὴν χώραν.
When these had taken over the government, Dionysius, the ruler of Syracuse, marched with his army to Hipponium; he relocated its inhabitants to Syracuse, and having razed the city to the ground, he annexed its territory to the Locrians.
§14.107.3κατὰ τὸ συνεχὲς γὰρ ἐφιλοτιμεῖτο τοὺς Λοκροὺς εὖ ποιεῖν διὰ τὴν συγχωρηθεῖσαν ἐπιγαμίαν· τοὺς δὲ Ῥηγίνους ἐπεθύμει τιμωρήσασθαι διὰ τὴν περὶ τῆς οἰκειότητος ἀδικίαν.
For he was continually eager to do favors for the Locrians because of the marriage alliance they had granted him; on the other hand, he desired to punish the Rhegians because of the injustice concerning the matrimonial alliance.
καθʼ ὃν γὰρ καιρὸν ἀπέστειλε πρὸς αὐτοὺς πρέσβεις ἀξιῶν αὑτῷ συγχωρηθῆναι τῶν πολιτικῶν παρθένων γαμῆσαι, φασὶ τοὺς Ῥηγίνους ἀποκριθῆναι δημοσίᾳ τοῖς πρέσβεσιν, ὡς μόνην αὐτῷ συγχωρῆσαι γαμεῖν τὴν τοῦ δημίου θυγατέρα.
For they say that at the time when he sent envoys to them, requesting that it be permitted him to marry one of the daughters of their citizens, the Rhegians replied officially to the envoys that they would permit him to marry only the daughter of the public executioner.
§14.107.4διὰ τοῦτο βαρέως φέρων καὶ δοκῶν ὑπερβαλλόντως ὑβρίσθαι, πολὺς ἦν ἐπὶ τῇ κατʼ αὐτῶν τιμωρίᾳ.
Resenting this deeply and believing that he had been excessively insulted, he was intent upon punishing them.
καὶ γὰρ ἐν τῷ πρότερον ἐνιαυτῷ τὴν εἰρήνην συνέθετο πρὸς αὐτοὺς οὐ τῆς φιλίας ὀρεγόμενος, ἀλλὰ τὴν ναυτικὴν δύναμιν παρελέσθαι βουλόμενος, οὖσαν τριήρων ἑβδομήκοντα· διελάμβανε γὰρ τῆς κατὰ θάλατταν βοηθείας ἀποκλεισθείσης ῥᾳδίως ἐκπολιορκήσειν τὴν πόλιν.
Indeed, in the previous year he had concluded peace with them, not because he desired friendship, but because he wished to deprive them of their naval force, which consisted of seventy triremes; for he assumed that, once they were cut off from assistance by sea, he would easily reduce the city by siege.
§14.107.5διόπερ κατὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν ἐνδιατρίβων ἐζήτει πρόφασιν εὔλογον, διʼ ἧς οὐ παρὰ τὴν ἀξίαν τὴν ἰδίαν δόξει λελυκέναι τὰς συνθήκας.
Therefore, while lingering in Italy, he was seeking a plausible pretext by which he would not seem to have broken the treaty in a manner unworthy of his own reputation.