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Cleandrus deprived the oligarchs restored by Telines of power and made himself tyrant with the help of the people, circ. 505 B. C. (Ar. Pol. v. 12, 1316 a 35 f.).

Παντάρης. To him would seem to belong a dedicatory inscription found at Olympia, I. G. A. 512 a Παντάρης μ᾽ ἀνέθηκε Μενεκράτιος Διὸ[ς ἆθλον Ἅρματι νικήσας πέδου ἐκ κλει]τοῦ Γελοαίου.

Γέλων: son of Deinomenes (ch. 145. 2), the eldest of four brothers, Gelo, Hiero, Polyzelus, Thrasybulus (Simon. fr. 142), tyrant of Gela 491, of Syracuse 485-478 B. C., was succeeded by his brother Hiero first at Gela and then at Syracuse.

Αἰνησιδήμου τοῦ Παταίκου. Clearly he is singled out for mention because he was a prominent man connected with Gelo. He may therefore probably be identified with the father of Thero, afterwards tyrant of Acragas and ally of Gelo (ch. 165). Some words, perhaps Θηρῶνος δὲ πατρός, have fallen out of the text. The genealogy of Thero, however, given by the scholiasts on Pind. Ol. ii. 16 and 82, does not contain the name of Pataecus, calling Aenesidemus son of Emmenides. It would seem from Ar. Rhet. i. 12 that Aenesidemus too dreamed of tyranny at Gela but was forestalled by Gelo; he may well be the tyrant of Leontini (Paus. v. 22. 7), established by Hippocrates. The family of the Emmenidae traced their origin back to Theras (cf. iv. 147 n.). One of Thero's ancestors came from Lindus in Rhodes to Gela, and thence to Acragas, where Telemachus, his grandfather, overthrew the tyrant Phalaris in Ol. 57.

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