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Scythes (
Gr. Σκύθης) was
tyrant or ruler of
Zancle in
Sicily, appointed to that post about
494 BC by
Hippocrates of Gela.
The Zanclaeans had sent to
Ionia to invite
colonists to join them in founding a new city on the
Kale Acte (Καλὴ Ἀκτή), or north shore of Sicily, and the offer had been accepted by a large body of
Samians, together with some fugitives from
Miletus.
But when they arrived at
Locri, Scythes and the Zanclaeans were engaged in hostilities against the
Sicels. Meanwhile, the Samians were persuaded by
Anaxilas of
Rhegium to take advantage of Scythes' absence, and occupy the city of Zancle itself. Hereupon Scythes called in the assistance of his ally,
Hippocrates, tyrant of
Gela, but the latter proved no less perfidious than the Samians, and immediately on his arrival threw Scythes himself and his brother Pythogenes into chains, and sent them as prisoners to
Inycum, while he betrayed his allies the Zanclaeans into the hands of the Samians. Scythes, however, contrived to make his escape to
Himera, and from thence repaired to Asia, to the court of
Darius,
king of Persia, where he was received with much distinction, and rose to a high place in the king's favor.
Scythes afterwards revisited his native city, but again returned to the
Persian court, where he died at an advanced age, and in the possession of great wealth, while he enjoyed general esteem for the probity of his character. It is remarkable that
Herodotus, while he designates
Anaxilas and
Hippocrates as tyrants (τύραννοι) of their respective cities, styles Scythes king (βασιλεύς) or monarch (μούναρχος} of the Zanclaeans.
He is thought by some writers, including
Perizonius, to have been the father of
Cadmus of Kos. Others, such as
Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer, suppose that this Scythes was the uncle of another Scythes in
Kos, who was the father of Cadmus.
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