Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse from 484 to 478 B.C.; rose from the ranks, gained a victory in 480 B.C. on the day of the battle of Salamis over a large host of Carthaginians who had invaded Sicily; d. 478 B.C., leaving behind him an honoured memory.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Gellus, Aulus * Gemara