§5.1Ad hanc hominis excellentem bonitatem mirabiles accesserant casus. nam proelia maxima natali suo die fecit omnia, quo factum est ut eius diem natalem festum haberet universa Sicilia.
To this outstanding goodness of the man, marvelous strokes of fortune had been added; for he fought all his greatest battles on his own birthday, whence it came to pass that the whole of Sicily held his birthday as a festival.
§5.2huic quidam Laphystius, homo petulans et ingratus, vadimonium cum vellet imponere, quod cum illo se lege agere diceret, et complures concurrissent, qui procacitatem hominis manibus coercere conarentur, Timoleon oravit homines, ne id facerent.
When a certain Laphystius, an insolent and ungrateful man, wished to bind him to give bail, saying that he was going to law with him, and many people had run together to attempt to restrain the man's impudence by force, Timoleon begged them not to do so.
namque id ut Laphystio et cuivis liceret, se maximos labores summaque adiisse pericula. hanc enim speciem libertatis esse, si omnibus, quod quisque vellet, legibus experiri liceret.
For, he said, he had undergone the greatest labors and faced the greatest dangers in order that this might be permitted to Laphystius and to anyone else; for this was the very appearance of liberty, if it were allowed to all to make trial by the laws of whatever each one wished.
§5.3idem, cum quidam Laphystii similis, nomine Demaenetus, in contione populi de rebus gestis eius detrahere coepisset ac nonnulla inveheretur in Timoleonta, dixit nunc demum se voti esse damnatum: namque hoc a dis immortalibus semper precatum, ut talem libertatem restitueret Syracusanis, in qua cuivis liceret de quo vellet quod vellet impune dicere.
Likewise, when a certain man similar to Laphystius, Demaenetus by name, had begun to detract from his achievements in an assembly of the people and to utter some invectives against Timoleon, he said that now at last he was bound by his vow; for he had always prayed for this from the immortal gods, that he might restore such liberty to the Syracusans, in which it would be permitted to anyone to say with impunity whatever he wished about whomsoever he wished.
§5.4Hic cum diem supremum obisset, publice a Syracusanis in gymnasio, quod Timoleonteum appellatur, tota celebrante Sicilia sepultus est.
When he had met his last day, he was buried at public expense by the Syracusans in the gymnasium which is called the Timoleonteum, while all of Sicily attended the ceremony.