d 143 to Hippocrates with many others and among them Ainesidemos the
son of Pataicos. Then after no long time he was appointed by reason
of valour to be commander of the whole cavalry; for when Hippocrates
besieged successively the cities of Callipolis, Naxos, Zancle, Leontini,
and also Syracuse and many towns of the Barbarians, in these wars Gelon
showed himself a most brilliant warrior; and of the cities which I
just now mentioned, not one except Syracuse escaped being reduced to
subjection by Hippocrates: the Syracusans however, after they had been
defeated in battle at the river Eloros, were rescued by the Corinthians
and Corcyreans; these rescued them and brought the quarrel to a
settlement on this condition, namely that the Syracusans should deliver
up Camarina to Hippocrates. Now Camarina used in ancient time to belong
to the men of Syracuse.

155. Then when it was the fate of Hippocrates also, after having been
despot for the same number of years as his brother Cleander, to be
killed at the city of Hybla, whither he had gone on an expedition
against the Sikelians, then Gelon made a pretence of helping the sons
of Hippocrates, Eucleides and Cleander, when the citizens were no longer
willing to submit; but actually, when he had been victorious in a battle
over the men of Gela, he robbed the sons of Hippocrates of the power and
was ruler himself. After this stroke of fortune Gelon restored those of
the Syracusans who were called "land-holders," 144 after they had been
driven into exile by the common people and by their own slaves, who
were called Kyllyrians, 145 these, I say, he restored from the city of
Casmene to Syracuse, and so got possession of this last city also, for
the common people of Syracuse, when Gelon came against them, delivered
up to him their city and themselves.

156. So after he had received Syracuse into his power, he made less
account of Gela, of which he was ruler also in addition, and he gave
it in charge to Hieron his brother, while he proceeded to strengthen
Syracuse. So forthwith that city rose and shot up to prosperity; for in
the first place he brought all those of Camarina to Syracuse and made
them citizens, and razed to the ground the city of Camarina; then
secondly he did the same to more than half of the men of Gela, as he had
done to those of Camarina: and as regards the Megarians of Sicily, when
they were besieged and had surrendered by capitulation, the well-to-do
men 146 of them