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HISTORY OP CAEIA. 15
defeating Candaules, carried off a celebrated battle-
axe, which had been handed down as an heirloom
in the Lydian dynasty from the time of Omphale,
and which Arselis dedicated to the Zeus Stratios at
Labranda. This tradition seems to indicate some
early success of the Oarians against the Lydians;
they were, however, conquered by Croesus, who
appears to have invaded them in the lifetime of his
father Halyattes.u
In some part of the seventh century B.C., a body
of Carians and Ionians, bound on a piratical expe-
dition, were forced to land in Egypt. The king of
that country, Psammetichus the First, then at war
with eleven other kings, enlisted these new comers
as mercenaries, and, with their aid, conquered his
enemies.
These adventurers were then established in Egypt
as a distinct body of troops, quartered apart from
the native army, and their descendants remained in
the country as mercenaries till the conquest of
Egypt by Cambyses, when they made an obstinate
resistance/ In the time of Apries, the number of
the name of the place of its dedication,—Labranda. The termination
anda belongs to so many names of places in Caria, that it is
probably expressive of locality.
" Herod, i. 28. Nicol. Damasc. Fr. 65. ap. Fragm. Hist. Graac.
ed. Miiller, iii. p. 397. Xanthus, Lyd. ibid. i. p. 40.
v Herod, ii. 152, 154 ; iii. 11. Polysen. vii. 3, states a quarter
of Memphis was called Kapo^t^lrai, because the Carians dwelt
there. The employment of these mercenaries by Psammetichus is
further attested by a most ancient inscription cut on the leg of
a colossal statue at Aboo-Simbel, in Nubia.—See Boeckh, 0. I.
No. 5126.
defeating Candaules, carried off a celebrated battle-
axe, which had been handed down as an heirloom
in the Lydian dynasty from the time of Omphale,
and which Arselis dedicated to the Zeus Stratios at
Labranda. This tradition seems to indicate some
early success of the Oarians against the Lydians;
they were, however, conquered by Croesus, who
appears to have invaded them in the lifetime of his
father Halyattes.u
In some part of the seventh century B.C., a body
of Carians and Ionians, bound on a piratical expe-
dition, were forced to land in Egypt. The king of
that country, Psammetichus the First, then at war
with eleven other kings, enlisted these new comers
as mercenaries, and, with their aid, conquered his
enemies.
These adventurers were then established in Egypt
as a distinct body of troops, quartered apart from
the native army, and their descendants remained in
the country as mercenaries till the conquest of
Egypt by Cambyses, when they made an obstinate
resistance/ In the time of Apries, the number of
the name of the place of its dedication,—Labranda. The termination
anda belongs to so many names of places in Caria, that it is
probably expressive of locality.
" Herod, i. 28. Nicol. Damasc. Fr. 65. ap. Fragm. Hist. Graac.
ed. Miiller, iii. p. 397. Xanthus, Lyd. ibid. i. p. 40.
v Herod, ii. 152, 154 ; iii. 11. Polysen. vii. 3, states a quarter
of Memphis was called Kapo^t^lrai, because the Carians dwelt
there. The employment of these mercenaries by Psammetichus is
further attested by a most ancient inscription cut on the leg of
a colossal statue at Aboo-Simbel, in Nubia.—See Boeckh, 0. I.
No. 5126.