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HISTORY OF CARIA. 49
of this wealth was probably expended in the em-
bellishment of his new capital. It is to be inferred
from the language of Vitruvius, in the passage
already referred to (though it is not actually so
stated by him), that the principal edifices of Hali-
carnassus, the temple of Mars with the Acrolithic
statue by Leochares, the temple of -Venus and
Mercury, and the Agora, were built by Mausolus on
first laying out the plan of the new city. His own
palace, as we learn from the same author,1 was built
of tile, covered with a kind of stucco polished like
glass, and with decorations in Proconnesian marble.
It is recorded of the astronomer Eudoxus that
he visited Mausolus in the course of his travels.111
Perhaps this visit was connected with the legislative
changes which Eudoxus is said to have introduced
in his native place," Cnidus, which city, though we
have no direct evidence to show that it was ever
subject to Mausolus, must have been more or less •
under the influence of so powerful a neighbour,
particularly if, as there is reason to believe, it was
not fortified at this time.0
It has been already remarked (ante, p. 42), that
to the Lycians a forged mandate from the king of Persia, ordering
their hair, which they liked to wear long, to be cut off, to supply
the court of Persia with wigs. The Lycians, believing this feigned
document, were glad to compound with Condalus for the loss
of their hair, by paying a poll-tax instead.—Compare Polya3n.
vii. 23.
1 ii. 8, § 20.
™ Diog. Laert. viii. 8, s. 2. 'AXXa rat irapa MavirwXov atyiKeodcu
n Plutarch, adv. Colot. xxxii. Diog. Laert. viii. 8, s. 3.
0 Antiq. of Ionia, part iii. p. S.
E
of this wealth was probably expended in the em-
bellishment of his new capital. It is to be inferred
from the language of Vitruvius, in the passage
already referred to (though it is not actually so
stated by him), that the principal edifices of Hali-
carnassus, the temple of Mars with the Acrolithic
statue by Leochares, the temple of -Venus and
Mercury, and the Agora, were built by Mausolus on
first laying out the plan of the new city. His own
palace, as we learn from the same author,1 was built
of tile, covered with a kind of stucco polished like
glass, and with decorations in Proconnesian marble.
It is recorded of the astronomer Eudoxus that
he visited Mausolus in the course of his travels.111
Perhaps this visit was connected with the legislative
changes which Eudoxus is said to have introduced
in his native place," Cnidus, which city, though we
have no direct evidence to show that it was ever
subject to Mausolus, must have been more or less •
under the influence of so powerful a neighbour,
particularly if, as there is reason to believe, it was
not fortified at this time.0
It has been already remarked (ante, p. 42), that
to the Lycians a forged mandate from the king of Persia, ordering
their hair, which they liked to wear long, to be cut off, to supply
the court of Persia with wigs. The Lycians, believing this feigned
document, were glad to compound with Condalus for the loss
of their hair, by paying a poll-tax instead.—Compare Polya3n.
vii. 23.
1 ii. 8, § 20.
™ Diog. Laert. viii. 8, s. 2. 'AXXa rat irapa MavirwXov atyiKeodcu
n Plutarch, adv. Colot. xxxii. Diog. Laert. viii. 8, s. 3.
0 Antiq. of Ionia, part iii. p. S.
E