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122 EXPULSION OF THE AEGINETANS [ll town of Thyrea to occupy and the adjoining country to cultivate, partly in order to annoy the Athenians, partly out of gratitude to the Aeginetans, who had done them good service at the time of the earthquake and the revolt of the Helots. The Thyrean territory is a strip of land coming down to the sea on the borders of Argolis and Laconia. There some of them found a home; others dispersed over Hellas. 28 During the same summer, at the beginning of the lunar _ ,., ^ , month (apparently the only time when Eclipse of the sun. 1 • such an event is possible), and in the afternoon, there v/as an eclipse of the sun, which took the form of a crescent, and then became full again ; during the eclipse a few stars were visible. 29 In the same summer, Nymphodorus the son of Pythes, „, ^ , . , a native of Abdera and a man of great The ^trl€HtiXHS ^^ICIRB Nymphodorus their influence with Sitalces who had married proxemts, hoping that his sister, was made by the Athenians he iviUgain over Sital- tj^gji- proxenus at that place and invited ces, kiMg of Thrace. , , . , t t 1 , ,- by them to Athens. He had formerly been considered their enemy, but now they hoped that he would gain over to their alliance Sitalces, who was the son of Teres and king of Thrace. This Teres, the father of Sitalces, was the first founder Sitalces tvas the son of the great Odrysian empire, which he of Teres, the founder of extended over a large part of Thrace, ~, . ~.'-^'^'^" ^'"r"^- although many of the Thracian tribes J hts leres has no con- ° _ -' nexion with the Tereus are Still independent. He has no of mythology. connexion with Tereus who took to wife from Athens Procne, the daughter of Pandion ; they do not even belong to the same Thrace. For Tereus dwelt in Daulia, a part of the region which is now called Phocis but in those days was inhabited by Thracians, and in that country Itys suffered at the hands of the women Procne and Philomela. Many of the poets when they make mention of the nightingale (Philomela) apply to the bird the epithet Daulian. Further, Pandion would surely