Syracuse and Agrigentum in Sicily, Tarentum and Locri in Italy, Ephesus and Miletus in Lesser Asia, appear, by all accounts, to have been at least equal to any of the cities of ancient Greece.

西西里岛的锡拉丘兹和阿格里根图姆、意大利的塔伦图姆和洛克里、小亚细亚的以弗所和米利都，从各方面来看，似乎至少与古希腊的任何一座城市不相上下。