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T TI E
IONIC TROPHY MONUMENT
AT XANTHUS.
We learn from Herodotus* that the people called hy the
Greeks Lycians, were by. the early inhabitants of the
country known by the name of Termelae, and that even
in the time of that historian; 450 b.c, the people were
called Termilians by their neighbours. Other ancient
authors f call them Termilae and Tramilae. The name
of Lycia was applied by the Greeks to the country, and
that of Xanthus designated the chief city ; but both
names seem to have been unknown to the people of
the country. In the numerous inscriptions found on
the monuments, the chief city is called ArinaJ, and the
country Tramelae§. To this earliest people are to be
attributed the rock-tombs, which are of the same suc-
cession of dates as the detached architectural raonu-
* Lib. i. cap. 173; lib. vii. cap. 92.
I" Stepbanus Byzantinus. J Ibid.
§ This name is seen in almost every inscription in the early lan-
guage.
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IONIC TROPHY MONUMENT
AT XANTHUS.
We learn from Herodotus* that the people called hy the
Greeks Lycians, were by. the early inhabitants of the
country known by the name of Termelae, and that even
in the time of that historian; 450 b.c, the people were
called Termilians by their neighbours. Other ancient
authors f call them Termilae and Tramilae. The name
of Lycia was applied by the Greeks to the country, and
that of Xanthus designated the chief city ; but both
names seem to have been unknown to the people of
the country. In the numerous inscriptions found on
the monuments, the chief city is called ArinaJ, and the
country Tramelae§. To this earliest people are to be
attributed the rock-tombs, which are of the same suc-
cession of dates as the detached architectural raonu-
* Lib. i. cap. 173; lib. vii. cap. 92.
I" Stepbanus Byzantinus. J Ibid.
§ This name is seen in almost every inscription in the early lan-
guage.
b