Fellows, Charles: Travels and researches in Asia Minor, more particularly in the province of Lycia (London, 1852)

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We learn from Herodotus* that the people called by the
Greeks Lycians were by the early inhabitants of the coun-
try known by the name of Termela?, and that even in the
time of that historian, 450 B.C., the people were called Ter-
milians by their neighbours. Other ancient authorst call
them Termilae and Tramilse. The name of Lycia was applied
by the Greeks to the country, and that of Xanthus desig-
nated the chief city; but both names seem to have been un-
known to the people of the country. In the numerous in-
scriptions found on the monuments, the chief city is called
ArinaJ, and the country Tramela3§. To this earliest people
are to be attributed the rock-tombs, which are of the same
succession of dates as the detached architectural monu-
ments, the sculpture, and the language,—all characterized as

* Lib. i. cap. 173; lib. vii. cap. 92.
t Stephanus Byzantinus.
X Ibid.

§ This name is seen in almost every inscription in the early lan-
guage.

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