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Agrigentum). and espoused the cause of the Locrians against Anaxilaus, tyrant of Rhegium. His most important achievement was the defeat of the Etruscans at See also:

CUMAE (Gr. Kb/.m)

Cumae (474), by which he saved the Greeks of See also:

CAMPANIA

Campania. A See also:

BRONZE

bronze See also:

HELMET (from an obsolete diminutive of O. Fr. helme, mod. heaume; the English word is " helm," as in O. Eng., Dutch and Ger.; all are from the Teutonic base hal-, pre-Teut. kal-, to cover; cf. Lat. celare, to hide, Eng. " hell," &c.)

helmet (now in the See also:

BRITISH

British Museum), with an inscription commemorating ' See also:

PERRONE, GIOVANNI (1794–1876)

Perrone, De locis tl,eologicis, pt. i., sec. i. cap. 2. 2 Si quis dixerit in See also:

ECCLESIA (Gr. EKKX ria, from Lc, out, and Ka)teiv, to call)

ecclesia catholica non esse hierarehiam divina ordinatione institutam, quae constat ex episcopis, presbyteris, et ministris: See also:

ANATHEMA (from Gr. avarz6 'cu, to lift up)

anathema sit.the event, was dedicated at See also:

OLYMPIA

Olympia. Though despotic in his See also:

RULE

rule Hiero was a liberal See also:

PATRON

patron of literature. He died at Catana in 467. See Diod. Sic. xi. 38-67; See also:

XENOPHON

Xenophon, Hiero, 6.

2; E. Liibbert, Syrakus zur Zeit See also:

des Gelon and Hieron (1875); for his coins see See also:

NUMISMATICS (See also:

section See also:

SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily).

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