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1 i.e. a "fifty-litra," the litra being a silver coin of Sicily.
2 This acclaim recognized his rule as constitutional, not "tyrannical."
3 The two chief deities of Sicily; cp. Book 5.2.
4 The Scholia to Pind. P. 1.152 give the inscription, which has been attributed to Simonides (fr. 106
Diehl, 170 Edmonds); the text and translation are from Edmonds:“
φαμὶ Γέλων᾽, Ἱέρωνα, Πολύζαλον, Θρασύβουλον,
παῖδας Δεινομένεος, τοὺς τρίποδας θέμεναι
ἐξ ἑκατὸν λιτρᾶν καὶ πεντήκοντα ταλάντων
Δαμαρετίου χρυσοῦ, τᾶς δεκάτας δεκάταν,
βάρβαρα νικάσαντας ἔθνη: πολλὰν δὲ παρασχεῖν
σύμμαχον Ἕλλασιν χεῖρ᾽ ἐς ἐλευθερίαν.
”"I say that Gelo, Hiero, Polyzalus, and Thrasybulus, sons of Deinomenes, dedicated
these tripods out of fifty talents and a hundred litres of the gold of Damarete, being a tithe
of the tithe of the booty they had of their victory over the Barbarian nations when they gave
a great army to fight beside the Greeks for freedom."
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