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οἱ τύραννοι: more properly (110. 1 n.) βασιλέες. The opposition of Greek to Phoenician explains their appearance as champions of Hellenic freedom, as it does the similar position of the tyrants of Syracuse and Acragas (vii. 165 f.).

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