Antiphe'mus
（
*)Anti/fhmos), the Rhodian, founder of Gela, B. C. 690.
The colony was composed of Rhodians and Cretans, the latter led by Entimus the Cretan (
Thuc. 6.4, and Schol.
ad Pind. Ol. 2.14), the former chiefly from Lindus (
Hdt. 7.153), and to this town Antiphemus himself (Philostephanus, apud
Athen. vii. p. 297f.) belonged. From the Etym. Magn. (
s. v. Γέλα) and Aristaenetus in Steph. Byzantinus (
s. v. Γέλα) it appears the tale ran, that he and his brother Lacius, the founder of Phaselis, were, when at Delphi, suddenly bid to go forth, one eastward, one westward; and from his laughing at the unexpected response, the city took its name. From Pausanias (
8.46.2) we hear of his taking the Sicanian town of Omphace, and carrying off from it a statue made by Daedalus. Müller (
Dor. 1.6. §§ 5, 6) considers him a mythical person. (See Böckh,
Comm. ad Pind. p. 115; Clinton,
F.H. B. C. 690; Hermann,
Pol. Anstiq. § 85; Göller,
de Orig. Syracus. p. 265.)
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