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22 HISTORY OF CARIA.

the Nisyrians, and the Calydnians,1 this latter being
a group of islands, of which Calymna was the prin-
cipal one.

Cos must have fallen under her influence, after
Cadmus, who had succeeded his father, Scythes,
there as tyrannus, voluntarily abdicated his rule.
This abdication must have taken place shortly before
the battle of Salamis.™

Of the history of Artemisia nothing further has
been preserved, except a romantic story of her un-
requited and fatal love and suicide, to be found in
Photius," and which may be fairly regarded as of a
semi-mythical character. She left a son, Pisindelis ;
and Pigres, the reputed author of the Margites
and of the Batrachomyomachia, was her brother,
or, according to Plutarch, her son.0

We have no proof that the rule of Artemisia on
the continent extended beyond the walls of Hali-
carnassus itself. We know that in the immediate
neighbourhood were several small towns belonging
to the Leleges, whose inhabitants were afterwards
transferred by Mausolus to Halicarnassus, wben
he made it his capital.

A number of petty contemporary dynasts pro-

I See Boeckh, Staatshaushaltung d. Athener, — Berlin, 1851,
p. 693, on the identity of the names Calydna and Calymna.

111 Herod, vii. 164. Suidas, s. v. i. p. 482, as quoted by Baehr,
in Herod, vii. 164.

II Phot. Biblioth. p. 153a, ed. Bekker.

0 Suidas, s. v. TLlypi]Q. Plutarch, de Herod. Malign, xliii.
Tzetzes, Exeg. in Iliad, ed. Hermann, p. 37. Procl. ap. Bekk.
Schol. ad II. p. i. as quoted by Mure, Hist, of Greek Lit. ii.
pp. 361, 366.