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 SICILIAN AFFAIKS.-GELO AND HIS DYNASTY. 237 lution to readmit the exiles and to extrude the Gelonian settlers everywhere : but an establishment was provided for these latter in the territory of Messene. It appears that the exiles received back their property, or at least an assignment of other lands in compensation for it. The inhabitants of Gela were enabled to provide for their own exiles by reestablishing the city of Kama- rina,i which had been conquered from Syracuse by Hippokrates, despot of Gelo, but which Gelo, on transferring his abode to Syracuse, had made a portion of the Syi'acusan territory, con- veying its inhabitants to the city of Syracuse. The Syracusans now renounced the possession of it, — a cession to be explained probably by the fact, that among the new-comers transferred by Gelo to Syracuse, there were included not only the previous Kamarinseans, but also many who had before been citizens of Gela.2 For these men, now obliged to quit Syracuse, it would be convenient to provide an abode at Kamarina, as well as for the other restored Geloan exiles ; and v;e may farther presume that this new city served as a receptacle for other homeless citi- zens from all parts of the island. It was consecrated by the Geloans as an independent city, with Dorian rights and customs : its lands were distributed anew, and among its settlers were men rich enough to send prize chariots to Peloponnesus, as well as to pay for odes of Pindar. The Olympic victories of the Kamari- naeanPsaumis secured for his new city an Hellenic celebrity, at a moment when it hardly yet emerged from the hardships of an initiatory settlement.^ Such was the great reactionary movement in Sicily against the high-handed violences of the previous despots. We are only enabled to follow it generally, but we see that all their trans- ' Diodoi'. xi, 76. fzEru 6i raiiTa Ka/xapivav /uev Te7.uoi KaroiKiaavTEC k^ iipxvC KareK/.Tipoi'xV'yO'V. See the note of Wesseling upon this passage. There can be little doubt that in Thucydides (vi, 5) the coirection of KaTUKiadrj virb Tlluuv (in place of vnb TD.uvo^) is correct. ' See the fourth and fifth Olympic odes of Pindar, referred to Olympiad 82, or 452 B.C., about nine years after the Geloans had reestablished Kama- rina. Tav vEoiKov eSpav (Olymp. v, 9); ott' afiaxaviac uyuv i( (puog Tovde iofiov aaruv (Olymp. v, 14).
 * Herodot. vii, 155.