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KOLOPHON. ifty community of race with Athens, though the cekist may have been of heroic Athenian family. Guhl attempts to show, or. mis- taken grounds, that the Greek settlers at Ephesus were mostly of Arkadian origin. 1 Kolophon. about fifteen miles north of Ephesus, and divided from the territory of the latter by the precipitous mountain range called Gallesium, though a member of the Pan-Ionic amphik- tyony, seems to have had no Ionic origin : it recognized neither an Athenian cekist nor Athenian inhabitants. The Kolophonian poet Mininermus tells us that the cekist of the place was the Pylian Andrremon, and that the settlers were Pylians from Pelo- ponnesus. " We quitted (he says) Pylus, the city of Xeleus. and passed in our vessels to the much-desired Asia. There with the insolence of superior force, and employing from the beginning cruel violence, we planted ourselves in the tempting Ku-ophon."* This description of the primitive Kolophonian settlers, given with Homeric simplicity, forcibly illustrates the account given by He rodotus of the proceedings of Neileus at Miletus. The establish- ment of Andrtemon must have been effected by force, and by the dispossession of previous inhabitants, leaving probably their wives and daughters as a prey to the victors. The city of Kolophon seems to have been situated about two miles inland, but it had a fortified port called Notium, not joined to it by long walls as the Peirzeeus was to Athens, but completely distinct. There were 1 Guhl, Ephcsiaca, cap. ii, s. 2, p. 28. The passage which he cites in Aristeides (Or. xlii, p. 523) refers, not to Ephesus, but to Pcrgamus, and to the mythe of Auge and Telephus: compare ibid. p. 251.

  • Mimncrm. Fragm. 9, Schneid. ap. Strab. xiv, p. 634 :

'H^fZf ff atTt) Tlv?,ov ^rj/^Hov t'xrrv '1/j.spT^v 'Aoijyv VTjvatv iKJHKopetfa,' 'Ec (3' iparr/v Ko/lo^ura, /3'ujv VTreponhov Mimncrmus, in his poem called Nanr.o, named Andrasmon as foundei (Strabo, p. 633). Compare this behavior with the narrative of Odysseus in Homer (Odyss. ix. 40) : 'I/.toi?f v fie Qtpuv uvffjiof KiKoveoai Treaaaev 'lo/fapy fvda d' iyu 7crd.iv expo-dor, tiAecra (5' avrofif Au(T<Ta/ue?', etc. Ijinanermns comes in point of time a little before Solon, u. c. 620-600.