Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 32: Lip, gun, tongue and sword

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As soon as these words came out, the expressions of several people in the room changed. Complimenting other city-state archons in public is more powerful than his own tyrant, and in Syracuse, only Ferrosanus dares to do so.

"Unfortunately, I heard that Daves of Dionia was born from a humble background. He used to be a sheepboy (referring to Daves grazing sheep and horses in Thessaly before he became a mercenary)." Marcias took the lead. Said something.

Henipolis finally couldn't help but retorted: "Is Lord Dionysius from a noble background?! I heard that before he became a plenipotentiary general, he was just an ordinary person in Syracuse. Clerk. Master Daves once said to me,'True heroes don't care about their origins, because they rely on their own abilities, not gifts from the family.'"

"Well said! This is where I admire Master Dionysius the most!" Phylistos praised loudly to cover up Mathias' failure to say: "Everyone here is also relying on their own efforts. , Has today’s noble status."

"Yes! Yes!..." Marcias echoed repeatedly to hide his embarrassment.

"Everyone--" Philistos hurriedly stood up holding the wine, looked around, and said loudly: "Because I have been with Master Dionysius in negotiations with the Carthaginians these days, I am really busy. I couldn’t spare the time, so I neglected the distinguished guests from Dionia! I have my friends here to accompany me, and I punished myself a cup to express my apologies!"

"Okay!" Herolis raised his glass, and Leptinius, Mathias, and Ferrosanus also raised their glasses.

Ansitanos did not stand up to dissuade him, because he knew that Philistos said these words for Dionysius, and of course Dionysius' apology was included in the wine.

Waiting for Philistos and the others to drank the wine in one glass, Ansitanos stood up with Hernipolis and said to a toast: "I am very grateful to Lord Philistos for his kind invitation. At the same time, congratulations to Master Dionysius for defeating the mighty Carthage many times with the assistance of the adults. This is a great victory for Syracuse and the most exciting thing the entire Greeks have heard. The news! Because Carthage, the biggest enemy of the Greek city-state in the western Mediterranean, has been hit hard, the people of Sicily and Great Greece will enjoy peace for a long time!

"Well said!" Philistos raised his glass again and shouted: "His Lord Dionysius! Siracusa won!"

When others raised their glasses to congratulate, Ansitanos, who was on the opposite side, noticed that Herolis’ expression was not as serious and enthusiastic as the two next to him, and Ferrosanus did not follow suit, but Shouted: "For the peace of Sicily!"

Then Felistos made a gesture, so the musician and dancer walked into the hall, and the banquet officially began.

In the beautiful melody, under the swaying of the soft dance, everyone looks at each other and feasts on...

When the music stopped and the dancers retreated, Hernipolis was almost full without knowing it, under the sweet voice of the beautiful female slave. He saw that the opposite Marcias had kissed and had **** with the slave girl, which was extremely unbearable; Leptinius was also flirting with the slave girl; only Herolis was still chewing elegantly; Ferosanus even Dismissed the female slaves on both sides; he turned to look at the teacher Ansitanos beside him eating very little, and was always watching singing and dancing with a smile...Hernipolis was ashamed of his poor self-control.

At this time, Felistos in the main seat coughed twice, attracted everyone’s attention to him, and then said: “Master Ansitanos, since the establishment of the Dionian Alliance, we The two parties have basically not had official diplomatic exchanges. This time, did Dionia send you to Syracuse for friendship?"

coming! Ansitanos has been accumulating energy for a long time, waiting for this moment, he immediately smiled and said: "Of course it is for friendship. Syracuse is a great state in Sicily, and Dionia is also a powerful alliance of Great Greece. Before, the two sides were busy dealing with Carthage, and the other was fighting back the natives in the mountains. For various reasons, the two Greek powers so close to each other did not establish friendly contact and communication, so that regrettable things happened. ——" Ansitanos paused intentionally.

Everyone in Syracuse did not speak, but Ferrosanus asked curiously: "What is regrettable?"

Ansitanos took the opportunity to take the conversation: "Several senators of the Dionian Senate were accused of corruption and bribery and other crimes. When collecting evidence of their violations, they found a large number of people from Tin Rakuza's'four drachma silver coins', and some letters. These letters—" Ansitanos looked at Philistos.

Philipstos has an expression of listening attentively.

"The main content is to communicate with Pollux, the elder who was convicted of Dionian,'how to disrupt the order of the Dionian League, cause riots among the people, and oust the Archon Daves...' etc. For things like that, the signatures of these letters are-Philistos." Ansitanos looked at the host of the banquet again: "The letter also mentioned,'He was ordered by Lord Dionysius. 'Polyxis himself admitted,'It is because of Syracuse's support that he dared to carry out these actions to betray the alliance so boldly.'"

"Is there such a thing?!" Felistos was astonished: "I have never written a letter to someone who is called Bo...Polyxis, this is really...Master Ansitanos , Can you bring those letters you said?"

"I brought it." Ansitanos had already prepared, took a letter from the baggage he carried with him, and handed it to the slave girl beside him.

Phylistos couldn’t wait to take the letter, opened it, and then smiled relievedly: “Master Ansitanos, if the handwriting and signature of every letter in your hand are the same, I can I can tell you for sure, these letters were not written by me!"

"Oh?!" Ansitanos looked surprised.

"Go and get some letters from my study with my signature." Felistos immediately ordered his slave.

"Let me see this letter." Herolis next to him spoke, and Felistos handed him the letter.

Just when the slave went to get the letter and the banquet fell silent for a while, Herolis took the letter and said, "...Well, Lord Ansitanos, I am very pleased to hear the news you just said. Shocked. But I want to stand on the sidelines as much as possible and talk about my own judgment. Felistos is a self-reliant and relatively noble literati. He disdains to do this kind of despicable thing that only despicable people can do. It’s impossible to talk to the greedy and nasty Dionian veteran you just mentioned, Bo... Bo..."

"Polyxis." Leptinius reminded from the side.

"For Pollux, it is impossible for Philistos to write to him. As the plenipotentiary general, Dionysius is very happy to see Dionysia who has a similar identity to him. Archon, made him feel that he is not alone in this vast Western Mediterranean, so how could he do something that would undermine the rule of Lord Daves!"

"Yes, my brother would never do such a thing!" Leptinius emphasized loudly.

"I wonder if it's like this--" Felistos pondered for a while, and then seriously analyzed: "Master Dionysius created today's powerful Syracuse with one hand, and Sicily The Greek city-states of Greece are united together, but they have also been hated by many people. I think you all know that when the Carthage army came to Syracuse a few years ago, some people in the city incited people to riot , I want to oust Lord Dionysius. Although the situation was finally calmed down, in fact, there have been rumors in Syracuse over the years, and even small riots and assassinations have been endless, otherwise the general general will not live. On this island, the defense is so strong.

These people are like poisonous snakes, hiding in caves, ignoring the peace and stability of Sicily, and seizing any possible opportunity to attack Lord Dionysius and our supporters. The Carthaginians were defeated, but there was a Dionian alliance in Greater Greece that was similar in strength to Syracuse. If Syracuse and Dionian had a war, then they could have the opportunity to go from the dark again. Come out and create turmoil in Syracuse to achieve their goals..."

"Are you saying that the opponents of Master Dionysius did this, and then planted and blamed Master Felistos on you?" Ancitanos asked with a smile.

"It's very possible." Felistos replied seriously.

"Then, Hermes, a Syracuse citizen we also captured in Turei, has fully admitted that he was appointed by Lord Dionysius and went to Turei to buy Pollux and so on. People, who are engaged in sabotage against Dionia, how can this be explained?" Ansitanos's mouth was slightly mocking.

"Hermes?" Felistos was a little confused, and asked several others: "Do we have such a citizen in Syracuse?"

Henipolis couldn’t help but said loudly again: "Don’t pretend, we have all investigated in detail. Hermes is a citizen of Syracuse, a businessman who lives in the center of the city, next to the Temple of Apollo. There are two sons in the gathering area. He is still the clerk of Lord Herolis. Am I right?"

"This is true?!" Felistos was shocked, and Herolis' expression was even more surprised. He turned his head to look at Felistos. After the two eyes met, he hesitated and said "...I do have a clerk named Hermes, but...I went to Cyrenaica a year ago, and when I came back, I heard that he had been punished for corruption and lost his position... if What Turey caught was the same person. I didn’t expect him to go to Turey. If you don’t believe me, you can go to the court record. His criminal record half a year ago..."

"This is troublesome!" Felistos said suddenly, his expression becoming extremely serious.

"What's the matter?" Leptinius asked puzzledly.

"If the former clerk of Hermes and Herolis is the same person mentioned by Lord Ansitanos, it means that those opponents may begin to consciously lurking and become public officials in the city-state of Syracuse. !" Felistos said solemnly.