They (i.e., the Carthaginians) suffered such things, when they were defeated by the Syracusans’ lord (i.e., Gelon, the tyrant of Syracuse), that they threw their youth from the sharp-prowed ships into the sea, whilst he (i.e., Gelon) saved Greece from heavy slavery ...: Some interpreted Greece as meaning Sicily, but others as meaning Attica. It is likely that Pindar, having chanced upon the Histories of Ephoros, himself follows him. For Ephoros writes this in his History, that when Xerxes was preparing his army against Greece, ambassadors (i.e., from mainland Greece) came to Gelon the tyrant to beg him to come to the Greeks’ mustering: meanwhile ambassadors from the Persians and the Phoenicians came to the Carthaginians and asked for a great host to go to Sicily and, when they (i.e., the Carthaginians) had subjugated those taking the Greeks’ side, to sail to the Peloponnese. When both (i.e., the Sicilian tyrant and the Carthaginians) had received the (respective) message and Hieron (i.e., Gelon’s brother) was eager to fight on the side of the Greeks, but the Carthaginians were keen to fight for Xerxes, then Gelon, who had prepared two-hundred ships and two-thousand horse and ten-thousand foot, heard that the host of the Carthaginians was sailing to Sicily, and he fought for the freedom not just of the Sikeliotai, but for that of all Greeks as well. It is likely that Pindar had read this history.
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In addition to all these things Pheidon saw fit also to attack any cities which Herakles had captured and himself to celebrate any games which the latter had founded. Now amongst these were also the Olympic Games. Therefore he invaded with violence to celebrate them, the Eleans having on account of the peace no arms to stop him and other peoples being subject to his rule. The Eleans do not count these Games as a valid celebration, but on account of these things took up arms and began to defend themselves. Now the Lakedaimonians assisted them, either because they (i.e., the Lakedaimonians) envied them (i.e., the Eleans) their prosperity on account of the peace or because they thought that they would have the Eleans as allies in destroying Pheidon, who had taken from them the hegemony of the Peloponnesians which they had previously possessed. And, in fact, the Eleans did help to destroy Pheidon, and the Lakedaimonians helped the Eleans in conquering the Pisatis and Triphylia.