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cavalry, succeeded him; and in 485, his aid having been invoked by the Gamori (the oligarchical landed proprietors) of Syracuse who had been driven out by the populace, he seized the opportunity of making himself See also:

DESPOT (Gr. Sc-va6rgs, lord or master; the origin of the first part of the Gr. word is unknown, the second part is cognate with rbvcs, husband, Lat. potens, powerful)

despot. From this See also:

time Gelo paid little See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to Gela, and devoted himself to the aggrandizement of Syracuse, which attained extraordinary See also:

WEALTH

wealth and See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence. When the Greeks solicited his aid against See also:

XERXES (the Greek form of the Pers. Khshayarsha; Old Testament Ahasverus, Akhashverosh—i.e. Ahasuerus (q.v.)—with wrong vocalization and substitution of y for v, instead of Akhshavarsh; in Aramaic inscriptions and papyri from Egypt the name is written Khs

Xerxes, he refused it, since they would not give him command of the allied forces (See also:

HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus vii. 171). In the same See also:

YEAR

year the Carthaginians invaded See also:

SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, but were totally defeated at See also:

HIMERA

Himera, the result of the victory being that Gelo became See also:

lord of all Sicily. After he had thus established his See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, he made a show of resigning it; but his proposal was rejected by the multitude, and he reigned without opposition till his death (478). He was honoured as a See also:

hero, and his memory was held in such respect that when all the brazen statues of tyrants were condemned to be sold in the time of See also:

TIMOLEON (c. 411-337 B.C.)

Timoleon (150 years later) an exemption was made in favour of the statue of Gelo. Herodotus vii. ; Diod. Sic. xi. 20-38; see also SICILY : See also:

HISTORY

History, and SYRACUSE; for his coins see See also:

NUMISMATICS: Sicily.

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