Dionysius autem, cum hereditatis nomine a patre Syracusanorum ac paene totius Siciliae tyrannidem accepisset, maximarum opum dominus, exercituum dux, rector classium, equitatuum potens, propter inopiam litteras puerulos Corinthi docuit, eodemque tempore tanta mutatione maiores natu ne quis nimis Fortunae crederet, magister ludi factus ex tyranno, monuit.
Dionysius had received as an inheritance from his father absolute rule over the Syracusans and almost the whole of Sicily. Lord of enormous wealth, commander of armies, ruler of fleets, master of cavalries, by reason of poverty he taught little boys their ABCs in Corinth; and at the same time he, a tyrant turned schoolmaster, admonished their elders by so signal a vicissitude not to trust too much in Fortune.
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