but the Syracusans, sending at the same time to the Corinthians to solicit their protection, and to require of them a captain fit to re-establish their city in its former dignity and to clear Sicily of several little tyrants by whom it was oppressed, they deputed Timoleon for that service, with this cunning declaration; "that according as he should behave himself well or ill in his employment, their sentence should incline either to favour the deliverer of his country, or to disfavour the murderer of his brother."
Baina Sirakusakoek hain zuzen, ordu berean, bidalirik Korintokoengana hauen geriza eta hiria bere lehen zuzentasunean berriz ezartzeko eta Sizilia hertsatzen zuten tirano txiki askoren garbitzeko gai zen buruzagi baten eske, senatuak Timoleon igorri zuen aterabide eta adierazpen honekin: