e command of the
Lacedemonians, Gelon would have come to the assistance of the Hellenes,
but that Terillos, the son of Crinippos and despot of Himera, having
been driven out of Himera by Theron the son of Ainesidemos 156 the ruler
of the Agrigentines, was just at this very time bringing in an army
of Phenicians, Libyans, Iberians, Ligurians, Elisycans, Sardinians and
Corsicans, to the number of thirty myriads, 157 with Amilcas the son of
Annon king of the Carthaginians as their commander, whom Terillos had
persuaded partly by reason of his own guest-friendship, and especially
by the zealous assistance of Anaxilaos the son of Cretines, who was
despot of Rhegion, and who to help his father-in-law endeavoured to
bring in Amilcas to Sicily, and had given him his sons as hostages;
for Anaxilaos was married to the daughter of Terillos, whose name was
Kydippe. Thus it was, they say, that Gelon was not able to come to the
assistance of the Hellenes, and sent therefore the money to Delphi.

166. In addition to this they report also that, as it happened, Gelon
and Theron were victorious over Amilcas the Carthaginian on the very
same day when the Hellenes were victorious at Salamis over the Persian.
And this Amilcas, who was a Carthaginian on the father's side but on
the mother's Syracusan, and who had become king of the Carthaginians by
merit, when the engagement took place and he was being worsted in the
battle, disappeared, as I am informed; for neither alive nor dead did he
appear again anywhere upon the earth, though Gelon used all diligence in
the search for him.

167. Moreover there is also this story reported by the Carthaginians
themselves, who therein relate that which is probable in itself, namely
that while the Barbarians fought with the Hellenes in Sicily from the
early morning till late in the afternoon (for to such a length the
combat is said to have been protracted), during this time Amilcas was
remaining in the camp and was making sacrifices to get good omens of
success, offering whole bodies of victims upon a great pyre: and when he
saw that there was a rout of his own army, he being then, as it chanced,
in the act of pouring a libation over the victims, threw himself into
the fire, and thus he was burnt up and disappeared. Amilcas then having
disappeared, whether it was in such a manner as this, as it is reported
by the Phenicians, or in some other way, 159 the Carthaginians both
offer sacrifices to him now, an