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14 MODERN DISCOVERIES AT ANCIENT EPHESUS.
their swearing allegiance to him as king. History does
not inform us who built the temple here alluded to,
nor what kind of building it was.
Androclus appears to have had the energy and
courage necessary at that time to maintain his rights,
and he doubtless did much to increase the importance
of the city, and to extend the worship of the goddess
Diana. He also conquered Samos, and the neighbour-
ing islands, but eventually fell in an engagement wherein
he assisted the Prienenses against the Carians. Pausa-
nias, writing in the second century of the Christian era,
says, 'Even now the sepulchre of Androclus, surmounted
by the figure of an armed man, may be seen in the road
which leads from the temple of Diana to the temple of
the Olympian Jupiter, and the gates called Magnetida;.'
On the death of Androclus, Ephcsus became a re-
public, and thus remained till the time of Alyattes,
about B.C. 620.
The sons of Alyattes, like those of Androclus, were
driven out of the city, but the republic then formed
existed only a few years, for Pindarus, the grandson of
Alyattes, again took the city, and established himself as
the tyrant.
In the year 562 B.C., Crcesus besieged the city, and
Pindarus, seeing that there was little chance of saving it
except by stratagem, ordered it to be united by cords
to the temple of Diana, which was seven stadia distant.
By this means the city and its inhabitants were in a
manner dedicated to Diana and placed under her special
protection ; and Crcesus, having respect to their strata-
gem, granted the citizens their liberty, at the same time
that he exiled Pindarus, the tyrant.
their swearing allegiance to him as king. History does
not inform us who built the temple here alluded to,
nor what kind of building it was.
Androclus appears to have had the energy and
courage necessary at that time to maintain his rights,
and he doubtless did much to increase the importance
of the city, and to extend the worship of the goddess
Diana. He also conquered Samos, and the neighbour-
ing islands, but eventually fell in an engagement wherein
he assisted the Prienenses against the Carians. Pausa-
nias, writing in the second century of the Christian era,
says, 'Even now the sepulchre of Androclus, surmounted
by the figure of an armed man, may be seen in the road
which leads from the temple of Diana to the temple of
the Olympian Jupiter, and the gates called Magnetida;.'
On the death of Androclus, Ephcsus became a re-
public, and thus remained till the time of Alyattes,
about B.C. 620.
The sons of Alyattes, like those of Androclus, were
driven out of the city, but the republic then formed
existed only a few years, for Pindarus, the grandson of
Alyattes, again took the city, and established himself as
the tyrant.
In the year 562 B.C., Crcesus besieged the city, and
Pindarus, seeing that there was little chance of saving it
except by stratagem, ordered it to be united by cords
to the temple of Diana, which was seven stadia distant.
By this means the city and its inhabitants were in a
manner dedicated to Diana and placed under her special
protection ; and Crcesus, having respect to their strata-
gem, granted the citizens their liberty, at the same time
that he exiled Pindarus, the tyrant.