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HISTORY OP CKIDUS. 349

settlement here at that early period, when they oc-
cupied Rhodes and were dominant in the Eastern
Mediterranean .f

The date when the Greets first estahlished them-
selves here cannot be fixed. Prom the fact that
Homer does not mention Cnidus or Halicarnassus,
Strahos infers that these cities did not exist in the
time of the poet. On the other hand, mythic tra-
dition'1 ascribed the founding of Cnidus to Triopas
with a band of settlers from Thcssaly, at a much
earlier period. According to another tradition,
supported by the authority of Herodotus,1 Cnidus
was colonized by Lacedaemonians, under Hippotas;
and it is certain that in historical times the inhabit-
ants were always considered of Dorian extraction.
It is possible, as Colonel Leake supposes,j that
the Thessalian settlers were driven out by the
Carians in very early times, and that the colony
from Lacedamion was founded at a later epoch,
shortly before the Dorian settlements established
in Cos, Rhodes, Halicarnassus, and Myndus.

Passing from these obscure traditions to his-
torical times, we find Cnidus a member of the con-

f See Colonel Leake's Memoir on Cnidus, Part iii. p. 2, of Ionian
Antiquities, published by the Dilettanti Society. To this valu-
able memoir I am indebted for most of the references in this
chapter.

s xiv. p. G53. Cnidus is mentioned in the Homeric Hymn to
Apollo, 1. 43, as Ki-icur alireivi]' but the date of this hymn is
uncertain.

h Callimach. Hymn, ad Cerer. 1. 25, sqq. Diodor. v. Gl. Steph.
Byzant. s. v. Aiinoi-. Pausan. x. 11, 1.

1 i- 174. Diodor. v. 9, 58.

J In the Memoir already cited, p. 3.