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i8o THE CITIES OF SICILY [VI 3 (7) The first Hellenic colonists sailed from Chalcis in ^, „„ . Euboea under the leadership of Thucles, 7. The Hellenic , r 1 1 m 11 1 colonies :-{i) Na.xos, ^nd founded Naxos ; there they erected fioHi Chalets, foitmied an altar in honour of Apollo the fl6o«/735B.c. (2)5>'m- Founder, •' which is still standing with- cusc, front Connth, . . 1 • . ?• • about 734 B.C. (3) out the city'^, and on this altar religious Leontini, 730 u. c, embassies sacrifice before they sail and v4) Catana,from fj-Q^i Sicilv. (8) In the following year Naxos. . , . ' .' , _ . , . , ^ -^ Archias, one of the Heraclidae, came from Corinth and fonnded Syracuse, first driving the Sicels out of the island of Ortygia ; in which, though it is no longer surrounded by the sea, the inner city now stands ; in process of time the outer city was included within the walls and became populous. (9) In the fifth year after the foundation of Syracuse Thucles and the Chalcidians went fortli from Naxos, and driving out the Sicels by force of arms, founded first Leontini, then Catana. The Catanaeans however chose a founder of their own, named Evarchus. 4 (10) About the same time Lamis came from Megara , , ^ ., ,,, bringing a colony to Sicily, where he (5) Trolilns, (6) * . ° "^ „ , -^-^ ., Thapsii,, and (7) (he Occupied a place called Frotilus, upon Hybhuan Megara, the rlver Pantacyas ; but he soon after- ■{^fr„ !^^'^?u^'c:.f°'.'! ^vards joined the settlement of the Chal- cidians at Leontini ; with them he dwelt a short time, until he was driven 728 n. c. (8) Sclinits, front the Hyblacan Megara, 628 n. c. (9) Igrigcntnni, front Gela, 582 n. c. (11) Zancle orMesscne.fvnt Cyme. Gela,f,vnt Rhodes c,nd ^^j ^^ fj^en founded Thapsus, where Crete, 690 bc. (lol , ,. , tt- r n • 1 t^i he died. His followers quitted 1 hapsus and founded the city which is called the Hyblaean Megara ; Hyblon, a Sicel king, had betrayed the place to them and guided them thither. There they remained two hundred and forty-five years, and were then driven out of their town and land by Gelo the tyrant of Syracuse ; but before they were driven out, and a hundred years after Or, ' which is now outside the city.'