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Certain Spartans accompanied Dorieus on his voyage as co-founders,
to wit, Thessalus, Paraebates, Celeas, and Euryleon. These men
and all the troops under their command reached Sicily; but there they
fell in a battle wherein they were defeated by the Egestaeans and
Phoenicians, only one, Euryleon, surviving the disaster. He
then, collecting the remnants of the beaten army, made himself master
of Minoa, the Selinusian colony, and helped the Selinusians to
throw off the yoke of their tyrant Peithagoras. Having upset
Peithagoras, he sought to become tyrant in his room, and he even
reigned at Selinus for a brief space - but after a while the
Selinusians rose up in revolt against him, and though he fled to the
altar of Jupiter Agoraeus, they notwithstanding put him to death.
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