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APOLLONIA AND EPIDAMUS. 40? under the auspices of Kypselus or Periander. In both these establishments Korkyraean settlers participated ;' in both, also, the usual religious feelings connected with Grecian emigration were displayed by the neighborhood of a venerated temple of Apollo overlooking the sea, Apollo Aktius near Anaktorium, and Apollo Leukatas near Leukas. 2 Between these three settlements, Ambrakia, Anaktorium, and Lukas, and the Akarnanian population of the interior, there were standing feelings of hostility; perhaps arising out of the violence which had marked the first foundation of Leukas. The Corinthians, though popular with the Epirots, had been in- different or unsuccessful in conciliating the Akarnanians. It rather seems, indeed, that the Akarnanians were averse to the presence or neighborhood of any powerful seaport ; for in spite of their hatred towards the Ambrakiots, they were more appre- hensive of seeing Ambrakia in the hands of the Athenians than in that of its own native citizens. 3 The two colonies, north of the Akrokenumiaii promontory, and on the coast-land of the Illyrian tribes, Apollonia and Epi- damnus, were formed chiefly by the Korkyraans, yet with some aid and a portion of the settlers from Corinth, as well as from other Doric towns. Especially it is to be noticed, that the akist was a Corinthian and a Herakleid, Phalius the son of Eratokleides, for, according to the usual practice of Greece, whenever a city, itself a colony, founded a sub-colony, the oekist of the latter was borrowed from the mother-city of the former. 4 Hence the Corinthians acquired a partial right of control and in- terference in the affairs of Epidamnus, which we shall find here- after leading to important practical consequences. Epidamnus, better known under its subsequent name Dyrrhachiurn, was situated on an isthmus on or near the territory of the Illyrian tribe called Taulantii, and is said to have been settled about 627 1 Skymn. Chius, 458 ; Thucyd. i, 55 ; Plutarch, Thcmistokles, c. 24. 3 Tlmcyd. i, 46 ; Strabo. x, p. 452. Before 220 c. c., the temple of Apoll j Aktius, which in the time of Thucydides belonged to Anaktorium. had come to belong to the Akarnanians; it seems, also, that the town itself had been merged in the Aknrnanian league, for Folybius does not mention it separate!/ (Polyb. ir, 63). Thucyd. iii 94 95, 115. 4 Thucyd. i, 24-26.