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16 HISTORY OP CAE.IA.
these Carian and Ionian mercenaries was 30,000.w
It is evident, therefore, that a succession of emigra-
tions from Asia Minor to Egypt must have taken
place after the first landing of Carians and Ionians
in the reign of Psammetichus I.
On the transfer of the empire of Crcesus to Cyrus,
Caria passed into the hands of his general Harpa-
gus, without any resistance on the part either of the
natives or the Dorian settlers, except in the case of
the inhabitants of Pedasus, who fortified them-
selves on the mountain-side which overlooks the
Ceramic gulf. The Caunians made a still more
desperate resistance/
In the division of the Persian dominions, sub-
sequently made by Darius, the Carians formed part
of the first Nome of the empire, which compre-
hended iEolis, Ionia, Lycia, the Milyans, and
Pamphylia/
In the Ionian revolt, B.C. 499, the greater part
of the Carian nation made common cause with the
Asiatic Greeks, and offered a brave resistance to
Daurises, the Persian general. When they were
first collected together on the frontier to resist
this invader, one of their leaders, Pixodarus, son
of Mausolus, proposed that they should cross the
Mseander, and give battle to the Persians with
that river in their rear, thinking that they would
offer a more obstinate resistance if they fought with
the knowledge that their retreat was cut off. This
counsel, however, which Herodotus thinks would
w Herod, ii. 163. Diod. i. 68.
x Herod, i. 176. * Id. iii. 90.
these Carian and Ionian mercenaries was 30,000.w
It is evident, therefore, that a succession of emigra-
tions from Asia Minor to Egypt must have taken
place after the first landing of Carians and Ionians
in the reign of Psammetichus I.
On the transfer of the empire of Crcesus to Cyrus,
Caria passed into the hands of his general Harpa-
gus, without any resistance on the part either of the
natives or the Dorian settlers, except in the case of
the inhabitants of Pedasus, who fortified them-
selves on the mountain-side which overlooks the
Ceramic gulf. The Caunians made a still more
desperate resistance/
In the division of the Persian dominions, sub-
sequently made by Darius, the Carians formed part
of the first Nome of the empire, which compre-
hended iEolis, Ionia, Lycia, the Milyans, and
Pamphylia/
In the Ionian revolt, B.C. 499, the greater part
of the Carian nation made common cause with the
Asiatic Greeks, and offered a brave resistance to
Daurises, the Persian general. When they were
first collected together on the frontier to resist
this invader, one of their leaders, Pixodarus, son
of Mausolus, proposed that they should cross the
Mseander, and give battle to the Persians with
that river in their rear, thinking that they would
offer a more obstinate resistance if they fought with
the knowledge that their retreat was cut off. This
counsel, however, which Herodotus thinks would
w Herod, ii. 163. Diod. i. 68.
x Herod, i. 176. * Id. iii. 90.