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ANTIOCHUS OF SYRACUSE
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ANTIOCHUS OF SYRACUSE, Greek historian, flourished about 420 B.C. Nothing is known of his life, but his works, of which only fragments remain, enjoyed a high reputation. He wrote a History of Sicily from the earliest times to 444, which was used by Thucydides, and the Colonizing of Italy, frequently referred to by Strabo and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Muller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, i.; Wolfffin, Antiochos von Syrakus, 1872.