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NATIVES OF ASIA JUNO II. 203 originally founded by Argeians, but was compelled in consequsnce of destructive wars with the Karians to admit fresh settlers and a Xeleid oekist from Miletus. 1 Bargylia and Ivaryanda seem to have been Karian settlements more or less Hellenized. There probably were other Dorian towns, not specially known to us, upon whom this exclusion from the Triopian solemnities was brought to operate. The six amphiktyonized cities were in course of time reduced to five, by the exclusion of Halikarnassus : the reason for which (as we are told) was, that a citizen of Halikar- nassus, who had gained a tripod as prize, violated the regulation which required that the tripod should always be consecrated as an offering in the Triopian temple, in order that he might carry it off to decorate his own house. 2 The Dorian amphiktyony was thus contracted into a pentapolis : at what time this incident took place, we do not know, nor is it perhaps unreasonable to conjec- ture that the increasing predominance of the Karian element at Halikarnassus had some effect in producing the exclusion, as well as the individual misbehavior of the victor Agasikles. CHAPTER XVI. NATIVES OF ASIA MINOR WITH WHOM THE GREEKS BECAME CONNECTED. FROM the Grecian settlements on the coast of Asia Minor, and on the adjacent islands, our attention must now be turned to those non-Hellenic kingdoms and people with whom they there came m contact. Our information with respect to all of them is unhappily very scanty. Nor shall we improve our narrative by taking the cata- logue, presented in the Iliad, of allies of Troy, and construing it as if it were a chapter of geography: if any proof were wanting 1 Polyb. xvi. 5. * Herodct. i, 144.