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ERYTHR.-K AND CHK.S. 187 the port on (he west side of the town of Teos, had for its epony- mous hero Geres the Boeotian, who was said to liave accompanied the Kodrids in their settlement. The worship of Athene Polias at Erythrre may probably be traceable to Athens, and that of the Tyrian Herakles (of which Pausanias recounts a singular legend) would seem to indicate an intermixture of Phoenician inhabitants. But the close neighbor- hood of ErythnE to the island of Chios, and the marked analogy of dialect which Herodotus 1 attests between them, show that the elements of the population must have been much the same in both. The Chian poet Ion mentioned the establishment of Aban- tes from Euboea in his native island, under Amphiklus, intermixed with the preexisting Karians : Hektor, the fourth descendant from Amphiklus, was said to have incorporated this island in the Pan- Ionic amphiktyony. It is to Pherekydes that we owe the men- tion of the name of Egertius, as having conducted a miscellaneous colony into Chios ; and it is through Egertius (though Ion, the native poet, does not appear to have noticed him) that this logo- grapher made out the connection between the Chians and the other group of Kodrid settlements. 2 In Erythras, Knopus or Kleopus is noted as the Kodrid oskist, and as having procured for himself, partly by force, partly by consent, the sovereignty of the preexisting settlement of mixed inhabitants. The Erythraean historian Hippias recounted how Knopus had been treacherously put to death on ship-board, by Ortyges and some other false adhe rents ; who, obtaining some auxiliaries from the Chian king Am phiklus, made themselves masters of Erythne and established in it an oppressive oligarchy. They maintained the government, with a temper at once licentious and cruel, for some time, admit- ting none but a chosen few of the population -within the walls of the town ; until at length Hippotes the brother of Knopus, arriving from without at the head of some troops, found sufficient support from the discontents of the Erythroeans to enable him to overthrow the tyranny. Overpowered in the midst of a public festival, 76-77 A large tower, belonging to a private individual named Aglomaclma H mentioned in Kyrene (Herod, iv, 164). 1 Herod, i. 142 : compare Thucyd. viii, 5. 8 Srrabo, xiv, p. 633.