Agathocles

But this, as the proverb has it,A fragment from the earlier history of Agathocles.

For that Agathocles must have had fine natural qualities is evident from the narrative of Timaeus itself.

Among these wives was Lanassa, the daughter of Agathocles, the king of Syracuse.

One of the servants and flatterers of Agathocles, whose name was Philo, came out to the stadium still flustered with wine.