Anaxilaus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Anaxilaus the tyrant of Rhegium
in the texts
The Histories
Tyrant of Rhegium who, out of a feud with the Zanclaeans, persuaded the Samians to seize Zancle rather than continue to their intended colony.
Learning this, Anaxilaus the tyrant of Rhegium, being then in a feud with the Zanclaeans, joined forces with the Samians and persuaded them to leave off their voyage to the Fair Coast and seize Zancle while it was deserted by its men.
Hellenica
A Byzantine who joins the conspiracy to betray the city and is later tried for his life at Lacedaemon, but acquitted after arguing he saved rather than betrayed the starving city.
But when Clearchus had sailed away, those who wanted to betray the city of the Byzantines set about their work,—Cydon, Ariston, Anaxicrates, Lycurgus, and Anaxilaus.
This Anaxilaus was afterwards tried for his life at Lacedaemon because of this betrayal, but was acquitted, on the plea that he did not betray the city, but rather saved it;