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18 HISTORY OF CARIA.
force. The mountainous parts of the territory
belonging to Miletus were given to Carians from.
Bedasus.b
It was the policy of Darius, on the suppression
of the Ionian revolt, to destroy the spirit of inde-
pendence in the Greek cities of Asia, by encouraging
and supporting everywhere the petty despots or
tyrants, who were easily made subservient to the
court of Susa.c Such a dynasty was that of Lygdamis
at Halicarnassus.
It is not certain when the rule of this family
commenced; but, as we are told by Herodotus that
in the time of Xerxes, Artemisia, the daughter of
Lygdamis, became tyrant of Halicarnassus after her
husband's death, it is to be inferred that she suc-
ceeded to his rule.'1 The historian, however, does
not distinctly state this. Herodotus also omits to
give the name of the husband of Artemisia, whom
modern writers, on the somewhat doubtful authority
of a passage in Suidas, call Mausolus.c Artemisia
b Herod, yi 20.
c See Diodorus, xvi. 42, for the system which the Persians
established in Cyprus, before the revolt of that island in the time
of Artaxerxes. 'Ev yap ttj vi^aio rau-j tt&Xeiq i)aav cil-ioXoyoi
/XEV EVVEU, VTTO $E TCIVTCIQ VTrfjp')(£ TETajfXEVa jiuzph. TroXitTjiara. TO.
TvpoaKvpovvra tcuq ivvia iroXEaty' EKaarfi ok Tovrdiv el-^E (3a<Tl\£a,
ttjq fXEV ttoKewq apy^ovra, rio 3e fiaaiXEl tujv TlEpauJu viroTETayfiEvov.
d Herod, vii. 99.
e Suidas, s. v. UiypriQ, the supposed author of the Margites, whom
Suidas describes as Kap, euro ' AXiKapvavaov, aSeX^oc 'AprE/xtalac,
rijg ev to'iq TroXifiots Sia<j>avove, MavauiXov yvvaiK&Q. Eekhel, Doctr.
Num. Vet. ii. p. 596, and Boeckh, C. I. ii. p. 470, No. 2691, follow
the authority of this passage in stating Artemisia to be the wife
force. The mountainous parts of the territory
belonging to Miletus were given to Carians from.
Bedasus.b
It was the policy of Darius, on the suppression
of the Ionian revolt, to destroy the spirit of inde-
pendence in the Greek cities of Asia, by encouraging
and supporting everywhere the petty despots or
tyrants, who were easily made subservient to the
court of Susa.c Such a dynasty was that of Lygdamis
at Halicarnassus.
It is not certain when the rule of this family
commenced; but, as we are told by Herodotus that
in the time of Xerxes, Artemisia, the daughter of
Lygdamis, became tyrant of Halicarnassus after her
husband's death, it is to be inferred that she suc-
ceeded to his rule.'1 The historian, however, does
not distinctly state this. Herodotus also omits to
give the name of the husband of Artemisia, whom
modern writers, on the somewhat doubtful authority
of a passage in Suidas, call Mausolus.c Artemisia
b Herod, yi 20.
c See Diodorus, xvi. 42, for the system which the Persians
established in Cyprus, before the revolt of that island in the time
of Artaxerxes. 'Ev yap ttj vi^aio rau-j tt&Xeiq i)aav cil-ioXoyoi
/XEV EVVEU, VTTO $E TCIVTCIQ VTrfjp')(£ TETajfXEVa jiuzph. TroXitTjiara. TO.
TvpoaKvpovvra tcuq ivvia iroXEaty' EKaarfi ok Tovrdiv el-^E (3a<Tl\£a,
ttjq fXEV ttoKewq apy^ovra, rio 3e fiaaiXEl tujv TlEpauJu viroTETayfiEvov.
d Herod, vii. 99.
e Suidas, s. v. UiypriQ, the supposed author of the Margites, whom
Suidas describes as Kap, euro ' AXiKapvavaov, aSeX^oc 'AprE/xtalac,
rijg ev to'iq TroXifiots Sia<j>avove, MavauiXov yvvaiK&Q. Eekhel, Doctr.
Num. Vet. ii. p. 596, and Boeckh, C. I. ii. p. 470, No. 2691, follow
the authority of this passage in stating Artemisia to be the wife