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GROWTH OF KI'HKSrS. |gl to have lingered upon that island for a long time, until the oracle vouchsafed to indicate to him what particular spot to occupy on the continent ; at length the indication was given, and he planted his colonists at the fountain of Hypelaeon and on a portion of the hill of Koressus, within a short distance of the temple and sanc- tuary of Artemis ; whose immediate inhabitants he respected and received as brethren, while he drove away for the most part the surrounding Lelegians and Lydians. The population of the new town of Ephesus was divided into three tribes, the pre- existing inhabitants, or Ephesians proper, the Bennians, and the Euonymeis, so named (we are told) from the deme Euonymus in Attica. 1 So much did the power of Androklus increase, that he was enabled to conquer Samos, and to expel from it the prince Leogorus : of the retiring Samians, a part are said to have gone to Samothrace and there established themselves, while another portion acquired possession of Marathesium near Ephesus, on the adjoining continent of Asia Minor, from whence, after a short time, they recovered their island, compelling Androklus to return to Ephesus. It seems, however, that in the compromise and treaty which ensued, they yielded possession of Marathesium to Andro- klus, 2 and confined themselves to Ancca, a more southerly district farther removed from the Ephesian settlement, and immediately opposite to the island of Samos. Androklus is said to have per- ished in a battle fought for the defence of Priene, which town he had come to aid against an attack of the Karians. His dead body was brought from the field and buried near the gates of Ephesus, where the tomb was yet shown during the days of Pau- sanias ; but a sedition broke out against his sons after him, and the malcontents strengthened their party by inviting reinforce- ments from Teos and Karina. The struggle which ensued termi- nated in the discontinuance of the kingly race and the establish- ment of a republican government, the descendants of Androklus being allowed to retain both considerable honorary privileges and the hereditary priesthood of the Eleusinian Demeter. The newly- received inhabitants were enrolled in two new tribes, making in 1 Kreophylus ap. Athen. viii, p. 361 ; Ephor. Fragm. 32, ed Marx; Ste ptian. Byz. v, 'Bevva: see Guhl, Ephcsiaca. p. 29. 1 Pausan. vii, 4, 3.