CHAP. XI. Of Gelo offering to resign the Govern∣ment.

Gelo having overcome the Carthaginians at Himera, reduced all Sicily to his obe∣dience. Then coming into the Market-place unarmed, he declared that he would resign the Government to the Citizens. But they refused, knowing him to be more loving to the people, then desirous of Monarchick power. Hence in the Temple of Sicilian Juno there is an Image representing him unarmed; which pictures this action.