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 3-5] THE CITIES OF SICILY l8l their own foundation, they sent out Pamilkis and founded Sclinus ; he had conic from Megara, their own mother state, to take part in the new colony, (ii) In the forty-fifth 3'ear after the foundation of Syracuse, Antiphemus of Rhodes and Entimus of Crete came with their followers and together built Gcla. The city was named from the river Gela, but the spot which is now the Acropolis and was first fortified is called Lindii. The institutions of the new settlement were Dorian. Exactly a hundred and eight years after their own foundation the inhabitants of Gela founded Agrigentum (Acragas), which they named from the river Acragas ; they appointed Aristonous and Pystilus founders of the place, and gave to it their own institutions. (12) Zancle was originally colonised by pirates who came from Cyme, the Chalcidian city in Opicia ; these were followed by a large body of colonists from Chalcis and the rest of Euboea, who shared in the allotment of the soil. The first settlement was led by Perieres of Cyme, the second by Crataemenes of Chalcis. Zancle was the original name of the place, a name given by the Sicels because the site was in shape like a sickle, for which the Sicel word is zauclon. These earlier settlers were afterwards driven out by the Samians and other lonians, who when they fled from the Persians B.C. 494- found their way to Sicily ^ Not long afterwards Anaxilas, ^'- '^'' 3- the tyrant of Rhegium, drove out these Samians. He then repeopled their city with a mixed multitude, and called the place Messene after his native country. Himerawas colonised from Zancle by Euclides, Simus, 5 and Sacon. Most of the settlers were (-,2-) uimaa, from oi^oo'l^' Chalcidian, but the so-called Myletidae, Zmidi. (13^ Acme, Syracusan exiles who had been defeated ^64 n.c, and (14) •' I'll Casiiietine, 644 b. c, in a civil war, took part ni the colony. y,.^„„ Syracuse. (15) Their language was a mixture of the Camai iua, front Syra- Chalcidian and Doric dialects, but their """' 599 «• c institutions were mainly Chalcidian. (13) Acrae and Cas- n Cp. Herod, vi. 22, 23.