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Phintias

Φιντίας).


1.

A Pythagorean, the friend of Damon , who was condemned to die by Dionysius the elder. For details, see Damon.


2.

A tyrant of Agrigentum, who established his power over that city during the period of confusion which followed the death of Agathocles (B.C. 289). He founded a new city on the southern coast of Sicily, to which he gave his own name, and whither he removed all the inhabitants from Gela, which he razed to the ground.

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