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HISTORY OF CARIA. 27
In the Athenian inscriptions which contain the
lists of the Carian tributaries, the name of a ruler
is associated with the name of a town or people
only in the case of Syangela and perhaps Idyma.
Hence it has been ingeniously argued that, at the
time when these lists were inscribed (between B.C.
4,4,7 and B.C. 413), the petty despots in the Carian
cities had been for the most part expelled, and
democracies instituted in their room.1'
Without laying too much stress on such negative
evidence, we may consider the fact contended for,
that the tyranni in Oaria had been for the most
part deposed in the latter half of the fifth century,
as in itself exceedingly probable, for we know that
the Athenians introduced in all the states to which
their influence extended a democratic form of
government. It is probable that they never suc-
ceeded in enforcing a claim for tribute from the
towns in the interior of Caria, for in B.C. 428, Lysi-
kles, an Athenian commander, sent to levy money
on this coast, landed at Myus, and marched into
the plain of the Mseander as far as a hill called
Sandius, but was defeated and slain by the Carians
and Anaiitse.c
After Tissaphernes had been appointed satrap of
Sardis, in the room of Pissuthnes, he was required
b Waddington, in the Rev. Numism. 1856, pp. 55-9, who quotes
the following from inscriptions, Fragm. cv. Boeckh : ZvayyekijQ 2>v
cipx" n/rp7)s (qy. Wyprje) ; Fragm. v. ibid. ricuTuj/c 'IBv/j^q). The
other fragments which Mr. Waddington quotes are less conclusive,
as the reading which he proposes is conjectural. Compare Boeckh,
Staatshaushaltung, ii. p. 733, p. 691.
c Thucyd. iii. 19.
In the Athenian inscriptions which contain the
lists of the Carian tributaries, the name of a ruler
is associated with the name of a town or people
only in the case of Syangela and perhaps Idyma.
Hence it has been ingeniously argued that, at the
time when these lists were inscribed (between B.C.
4,4,7 and B.C. 413), the petty despots in the Carian
cities had been for the most part expelled, and
democracies instituted in their room.1'
Without laying too much stress on such negative
evidence, we may consider the fact contended for,
that the tyranni in Oaria had been for the most
part deposed in the latter half of the fifth century,
as in itself exceedingly probable, for we know that
the Athenians introduced in all the states to which
their influence extended a democratic form of
government. It is probable that they never suc-
ceeded in enforcing a claim for tribute from the
towns in the interior of Caria, for in B.C. 428, Lysi-
kles, an Athenian commander, sent to levy money
on this coast, landed at Myus, and marched into
the plain of the Mseander as far as a hill called
Sandius, but was defeated and slain by the Carians
and Anaiitse.c
After Tissaphernes had been appointed satrap of
Sardis, in the room of Pissuthnes, he was required
b Waddington, in the Rev. Numism. 1856, pp. 55-9, who quotes
the following from inscriptions, Fragm. cv. Boeckh : ZvayyekijQ 2>v
cipx" n/rp7)s (qy. Wyprje) ; Fragm. v. ibid. ricuTuj/c 'IBv/j^q). The
other fragments which Mr. Waddington quotes are less conclusive,
as the reading which he proposes is conjectural. Compare Boeckh,
Staatshaushaltung, ii. p. 733, p. 691.
c Thucyd. iii. 19.