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    Anaxilaus

    historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages

    Anaxilaus the tyrant of Rhegium

    in the texts

    PoliticsClassical · Greek

    Tyrant who arose from an oligarchy at Rhegium.

    And constitutions change from oligarchy to tyranny, asdid almost the greatest number of the ancient oligarchies in Sicily, at Leontini to the tyranny of Panaetius, at Gelo to that of Cleander, at Rhegium to that of Anaxilaus, and in many other cities similarly.
    book 5

    Vitae philosophorumImperial · Greek

    Author cited making Myson an Arcadian.

    Anaxilaus makes him an Arcadian.
    book 1

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    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.
    book 6

    AlcibiadesImperial · Greek

    Byzantine who arranged the city's surrender to Alcibiades and was later tried at Sparta for treachery.

    But after Anaxilaus, Lycurgus, and certain men besides had agreed to surrender the city to him on condition that it be not plundered, he spread abroad the story that threatening complications in Ionia called him away.
    chapter 31
    Therefore it was that when Anaxilaus was prosecuted at Sparta for treachery, his words showed clearly that his deeds had not been disgraceful.
    chapter 31

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    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.

    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;
    book 1
    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.
    book 1