GELO
GELO. Gelo the tyrant, after he had overcome the Carthaginians at Himera, made peace with them, and among
other articles compelled them to subscribe this,—that they
should no more sacrifice their children to Saturn. He
often marched the Syracusans out to plant their fields, as
if it had been to war, that the country might be improved
by husbandry, and they might not be corrupted by idleness.
When he demanded a sum of money of the citizens, and
thereupon a tumult was raised, he told them he would but
borrow it; and after the war was ended, he restored it to
them again. At a feast, when a harp was offered, and
others one after another tuned it and played upon it, he
sent for his horse, and with an easy agility leaped upon
him.