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Ἀναξίλεως: tyrant B. C. 494-476 (Diod. xi. 48). For his friendship with the barbarian cf. vii. 164, 165.

Rhegium, like its neighbour across the strait, Zancle, was a Chalcidic colony. The close connexion of the two, and of the Samians with Anaxilaus, is attested by the adoption of similar types on the coins, the calf's head being a Samian type, and the lion's head perhaps taken from the lion's scalp of Samos (Hill, H. G. C. 29 f., and in more detail Dodd, J. H. S. xxviii. 56-76). Anaxilaus was probably bent on establishing his own supremacy over Zancle, an object he in the end attained (vii. 164 n.).

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