Zancle
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Messana
in the texts
The Histories
Sicilian city seized by the Samians while its men were away besieging a neighboring town, and betrayed to them by Hippocrates.
The Samians consented and seized Zancle;
Most of the Zanclaeans were kept in chains as slaves by Hippocrates himself;
As they voyaged to Sicily, the Samians came to the country of the Epizephyrian
History of the Peloponnesian War
A Sicilian city founded from Cuma by freebooters, later resettled by Samians and Ionians and renamed Messana by Anaxilas.
Zancle, again, was originally founded from Cuma, the Chalcidian city in the country of the Opici, by some freebooters who went there;
and again, Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegium, having not long after expelled the Samians, and colonized their country with a mixed population, changed its name to Messana, after his own original country.