§10.1Confecta caede, cum multitudo visendi gratia introisset, nonnulli ab insciis pro noxiis conciduntur.
When the murder was completed, and the crowd had entered for the sake of seeing, several persons were cut down by those who were ignorant of the facts, being mistaken for the guilty.
nam celeri rumore dilato, Dioni vim allatam, multi concurrerant, quibus tale facinus displicebat.
For a swift rumor having spread that violence had been offered to Dion, many had run together to whom such a deed was displeasing.
ii falsa suspicione ducti immerentes ut sceleratos occidunt.
These, led by a false suspicion, killed the innocent as if they were the criminals.
§10.2huius de morte ut palam factum est, mirabiliter vulgi mutata est voluntas.
As soon as his death became publicly known, the disposition of the populace was wonderfully changed.
nam qui vivum eum tyrannum vocitarant, eidem liberatorem patriae tyrannique expulsorem praedicabant.
For those who when he was alive had repeatedly called him a tyrant, now proclaimed the same man the liberator of his country and the expeller of a tyrant.
sic subito misericordia odio successerat, ut eum suo sanguine ab Acherunte, si possent, cuperent redimere.
Thus suddenly had pity succeeded to hatred, so that they wished, if they could, to redeem him from Acheron with their own blood.
§10.3itaque in urbe celeberrimo loco, elatus publice, sepulcri monumento donatus est.
Therefore, in the most celebrated place of the city, having been carried out to burial at public expense, he was honored with a tomb.
diem obiit circiter annos quinquaginta natus, quartum post annum, quam ex Peloponneso in Siciliam redierat.
He died when he was about fifty years old, in the fourth year after he had returned from the Peloponnese to Sicily.