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26 HISTORY OF CABIA.
nassus by Herodotus, who afterwards, however,
incurred the jealousy of his fellow-citizens, and
retired to Thurium. The date of his voluntary
exile is assigned by Clinton to the year 443 B.C.X
These scanty particulars, preserved by a late
compiler, are all that is known of the history of
Lygdamis, nor have we any means of ascertaining
what form of government was substituted for his
arbitrary rule at Halicarnassus. "We learn, how-
ever, from Thucydidesy that the Carians on the
coast, together with the Dorian settlers there, paid
tribute to Athens at the commencement of the Pelo-
ponnesian war, and in the lists of these tributaries
given in inscriptions recently found at Athens,, the
name of Halicarnassus frequently occurs, between
the dates 447 and 413 B.C.2 About this time Aris-
tophanes alludes to the Carians as mountaineers,
dwelling in hill fortresses,1 and henceforth they are
mentioned in Greek history rather as mercenary
soldiers, than collectively as a nation. The moun-
tainous character of their country probably was
one inducement for them to serve as mercenaries,
as in the case of the Swiss and Scotch in modern
times.
x F. H. ii. p. 54. Suidas, S. V. HpoSor. 'E\6hv (>£ dq 'AXiKapvaaouv,
cat tuv rvpavvov efeXaaac, £-keiS>) varepov ii&tv eavrov (j)doyovjj.Ei'ov
vwo raiv -rro\i.rwv, els ru Qovpiov., aTTOiKi'Cufxevov vttu ABijvaiioy,
ede\oi'~i)Q i)\6e.
y Thucyd. ii. 9. Kapt'a ?/ kirl OaXaavr], Awoiijc liapal Trpotromoi.
z Boeckh, Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener,—Berlin, 1851,
vol. ii. pp. 670-1. Compare p. 598, ibid, for the range of time over
which these inscriptions extend.
* Aves, 1. 292. v
nassus by Herodotus, who afterwards, however,
incurred the jealousy of his fellow-citizens, and
retired to Thurium. The date of his voluntary
exile is assigned by Clinton to the year 443 B.C.X
These scanty particulars, preserved by a late
compiler, are all that is known of the history of
Lygdamis, nor have we any means of ascertaining
what form of government was substituted for his
arbitrary rule at Halicarnassus. "We learn, how-
ever, from Thucydidesy that the Carians on the
coast, together with the Dorian settlers there, paid
tribute to Athens at the commencement of the Pelo-
ponnesian war, and in the lists of these tributaries
given in inscriptions recently found at Athens,, the
name of Halicarnassus frequently occurs, between
the dates 447 and 413 B.C.2 About this time Aris-
tophanes alludes to the Carians as mountaineers,
dwelling in hill fortresses,1 and henceforth they are
mentioned in Greek history rather as mercenary
soldiers, than collectively as a nation. The moun-
tainous character of their country probably was
one inducement for them to serve as mercenaries,
as in the case of the Swiss and Scotch in modern
times.
x F. H. ii. p. 54. Suidas, S. V. HpoSor. 'E\6hv (>£ dq 'AXiKapvaaouv,
cat tuv rvpavvov efeXaaac, £-keiS>) varepov ii&tv eavrov (j)doyovjj.Ei'ov
vwo raiv -rro\i.rwv, els ru Qovpiov., aTTOiKi'Cufxevov vttu ABijvaiioy,
ede\oi'~i)Q i)\6e.
y Thucyd. ii. 9. Kapt'a ?/ kirl OaXaavr], Awoiijc liapal Trpotromoi.
z Boeckh, Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener,—Berlin, 1851,
vol. ii. pp. 670-1. Compare p. 598, ibid, for the range of time over
which these inscriptions extend.
* Aves, 1. 292. v