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| | Gelo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | 478 BC), son of Deinomenes, was a 5th century BC ruler of Gela and Syracuse. |
 | | On the death of Hippocrates, tyrant of Gela (491 BC), Gelo, who had been his commander of cavalry, succeeded him; and in 485 BC, his aid having been invoked by the Gamori (the oligarchical landed proprietors) of Syracuse who had been driven out by the populace, he seized the opportunity of making himself despot. |
 | | He was honoured as a hero, and his memory was held in such respect that when all the brazen statues of tyrants were condemned to be sold in the time of Timoleon (150 years later) an exemption was made in favour of the statue of Gelo. |
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