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CNIDUS.

CHAPTER XIII.

Excavations at Cuidus. Description of the site; the Triopian
promontory; the two harbours ; the moles. Convenience of
Cnidus as a harbour of refuge in early times. First colonists
here. Triopas. Hippotas. Cnidus a member of the Doric
Hexapolis. Probable date of this league. Distant settlements
of Cnidians in the Mediterranean, about B.C. 579. Their share
in the Hellenium at Naukratis. The Cnidians included in the
conquest of Cyrus. Their relations with Tarentum, in the
reign of Darius. Their interference on behalf of some Cyrenasan
exiles. Gathering of the fleet of Cimon at Cnidus before the
battle of the Eurymedon. The Cnidians enrolled among the
Athenian tributaries. Their city unfortified during the Pelo-
ponnesian war. After the defeat of the Athenians in Sicily,
they join the Lacedaemonians. Attempt of the Athenians on
Cnidus repulsed. Naval victory of Conon, B.C. 394. Cnidus
still adheres to the Laceda?monians. Overthrow of the oligar-
chical party there, probably about the time ofEudoxus. Narrow
basis of the constitution as described by Aristotle. Munificent
encouragement of art by the Cnidians. Their dedication in the
Lesche at Delphi. The Venus of Praxiteles. Eudoxus. Ctesias.
Cuidus probably part of the dominions of Ptolemy Philadelphns.
J-he jiensilis ambulatio constructed there by Sostratos in his reign.
i- binder of Cnidus by Cilician and Cretan pirates. Theopompos ;
his son Artemidoros. Mission of Asinius Gallio to Cuidus from

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