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HISTORY OF CARIA. 11
succeeded in opening a trade with these fierce
marauders at the fountain Salmacis. Subdued by
the civilizing influence of commerce rather than by
the arms of the colonists, the Carians and Leleges
gradually learnt to adopt the more orderly and
peaceable habits of Greek fife. Now, it is a curious
confirmation of this story, that in an inscription
discovered by me at Budrum, and which will be
more fully noticed hereafter,1' a decree is made out
in the joint names of the Halicarnassians and Sal-
macians; from which fact it may be inferred that
two distinct people were united at Halicarnassus in
one civil community. The date of this inscription,
as I shall show from internal evidence, is probably
about B.C. 440,
Salmacis is mentioned hy Stephanus Byzantinus1
as a town in Oaria; and it is probable that the
people of this name, mentioned in the inscription,
consisted of partially civilized Carians and Lelegians,
and that they dwelt round an Acropolis on the rocky
promontory now called Caplan Calessy, opposite
to the Doric settlement in the island. After the
separate existence of the native town had been
merged in that of Halicarnassus, the Acropolis of
Salmacis was still retained, and formed, as will be
subsequently shown, one of the two principal cita-
dels of Halicarnassus, the other being in the island.1"
It is probable that such an association as I have
k Appendix, No. 1.
1 8. v. SaXjuaictc, irokCQ Kapt'ac, to idviicbv 'ZaX^.aarriQ, k. t. X.
m This will be more fully shown in the chapter of this work
which treats of the topography of Halicarnassus.
succeeded in opening a trade with these fierce
marauders at the fountain Salmacis. Subdued by
the civilizing influence of commerce rather than by
the arms of the colonists, the Carians and Leleges
gradually learnt to adopt the more orderly and
peaceable habits of Greek fife. Now, it is a curious
confirmation of this story, that in an inscription
discovered by me at Budrum, and which will be
more fully noticed hereafter,1' a decree is made out
in the joint names of the Halicarnassians and Sal-
macians; from which fact it may be inferred that
two distinct people were united at Halicarnassus in
one civil community. The date of this inscription,
as I shall show from internal evidence, is probably
about B.C. 440,
Salmacis is mentioned hy Stephanus Byzantinus1
as a town in Oaria; and it is probable that the
people of this name, mentioned in the inscription,
consisted of partially civilized Carians and Lelegians,
and that they dwelt round an Acropolis on the rocky
promontory now called Caplan Calessy, opposite
to the Doric settlement in the island. After the
separate existence of the native town had been
merged in that of Halicarnassus, the Acropolis of
Salmacis was still retained, and formed, as will be
subsequently shown, one of the two principal cita-
dels of Halicarnassus, the other being in the island.1"
It is probable that such an association as I have
k Appendix, No. 1.
1 8. v. SaXjuaictc, irokCQ Kapt'ac, to idviicbv 'ZaX^.aarriQ, k. t. X.
m This will be more fully shown in the chapter of this work
which treats of the topography of Halicarnassus.