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HISTOET OP CARIA. 31
related to the Lygdamid family, which, as we have
seen, was expelled from Halicarnassus about sixty
years before his time. It is stated by Strabo," that
the family of Hekatonmus was of Mylasian origin;
and it is worthy of note that the Athenian orators
and Lucian, in speaking of Mausolus, constantly
call him the " Carian," a contemptuous mode of
designation, which would hardly have been used,
had he been of purely Greek race.
Further, the marriages between brothers and
sisters which took place in this family are more
in accordance with barbarian than with Greek
feeling.b
It seems, therefore, probable that Hekatomnus
was of Carian race, descended perhaps from a line
of native princes who had reigned at Mylasa.
Oliatos, the son of Ibanolis, who is mentioned by
Herodotus as tyrant of Mylasa, B.C. 501,c may have
a xiv. p. 659. 'ItTTOpeirai. oe (Mu\a<T(ra) nwjirj inrap^aL to irakatov,
Trarple oe KaifiaaiXeiovruivKapuivrSiv irepiTov'Ei:aTOfj.vov. Compare
the inscription, Boeokh, C.I. 2691 c. Mawo-wAAw, ovtl eitepyerrj rije
7rv\eu)Q rije MvXaaetov Kal avrw Kal tS> irarpi EKarofivbi rati rots
•KpoyovoiQ T0~lQ tovtwv, K.r.X.
b Arrian notices this custom in the case of Idrieus and Ada, as
being Kara rov vojxov twv Kapuv (i. 23).
0 He was one of the tyrants seized by Aristagoras at the com-
mencement of the Ionian revolt. (Herod, v. 37.) The Herakleides,
son of Ibanolis, who defeated the Persian commander Daurises
(ibid. 121), was probably his brother and successor at Mylasa.
Herodotus mentions a Pixodarus, son of Mausolus, of Kindya
(ibid. 118), as one of the Carian leaders in the battle fought at the
river Marsyas against the Persians, and states that he married the
daughter of Syennesis, king of Cilicia. From the occurrence of
the names Pixodarus and Mausolus in this family, it is possible
that they were ancestors of Hekatomnus.
related to the Lygdamid family, which, as we have
seen, was expelled from Halicarnassus about sixty
years before his time. It is stated by Strabo," that
the family of Hekatonmus was of Mylasian origin;
and it is worthy of note that the Athenian orators
and Lucian, in speaking of Mausolus, constantly
call him the " Carian," a contemptuous mode of
designation, which would hardly have been used,
had he been of purely Greek race.
Further, the marriages between brothers and
sisters which took place in this family are more
in accordance with barbarian than with Greek
feeling.b
It seems, therefore, probable that Hekatomnus
was of Carian race, descended perhaps from a line
of native princes who had reigned at Mylasa.
Oliatos, the son of Ibanolis, who is mentioned by
Herodotus as tyrant of Mylasa, B.C. 501,c may have
a xiv. p. 659. 'ItTTOpeirai. oe (Mu\a<T(ra) nwjirj inrap^aL to irakatov,
Trarple oe KaifiaaiXeiovruivKapuivrSiv irepiTov'Ei:aTOfj.vov. Compare
the inscription, Boeokh, C.I. 2691 c. Mawo-wAAw, ovtl eitepyerrj rije
7rv\eu)Q rije MvXaaetov Kal avrw Kal tS> irarpi EKarofivbi rati rots
•KpoyovoiQ T0~lQ tovtwv, K.r.X.
b Arrian notices this custom in the case of Idrieus and Ada, as
being Kara rov vojxov twv Kapuv (i. 23).
0 He was one of the tyrants seized by Aristagoras at the com-
mencement of the Ionian revolt. (Herod, v. 37.) The Herakleides,
son of Ibanolis, who defeated the Persian commander Daurises
(ibid. 121), was probably his brother and successor at Mylasa.
Herodotus mentions a Pixodarus, son of Mausolus, of Kindya
(ibid. 118), as one of the Carian leaders in the battle fought at the
river Marsyas against the Persians, and states that he married the
daughter of Syennesis, king of Cilicia. From the occurrence of
the names Pixodarus and Mausolus in this family, it is possible
that they were ancestors of Hekatomnus.