| Dionysius I of Syracuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (446 words) |
 | He carried on war with Carthage with varying success; his attempts to drive the Carthaginians entirely out of the island of Sicily failed, and at his death they were masters of at least a third of it. |
| After a protracted siege he took Rhegium (386), and sold the inhabitants as slaves. |
| He joined the Illyrians in an attempt to plunder the temple of Delphi, pillaged the temple of Caere on the Etruscan coast, and founded several military colonies on the Adriatic. |
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