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 #12 HISTORY OF GREECE. krian followers of Ajax founded the Epizephyrian Lokri on the southernmost corner of Italy, 1 besides another settlement in Libyar I have spoken in another place of the compulsory exile of Teu- kros, who, besides founding the city of Salamis in Cyprus, is said to have established some settlements in the Iberian peninsula. 2 Menestheus the Athenian did the like, and also founded both Ekea in Mysia and Skylletium in Italy. 3 The Arcadian chief Aga- penor founded Paphus in Cyprus. 4 Epeius, of Panopeus in Phokis, the constructor of the Trojan horse with the aid of the goddess Athene, settled at Lagaria near Sybaris on the coast of Italy ; and the very tools which he had employed in that remark- able fabric were shown down to a late date in the temple of Athene at Metapontum. 5 Temples, altars and towns were also pointed out in Asia Minor, in Samos and in Krete, the foundation of Agamemnon or of his followers. 6 The inhabitants of the Gre- cian town of Skione, in the Thracian peninsula called Pallene or Pellene", accounted themselves the offspring of the Pellenians from Achasa in Peloponnesus, who had served under Agamem- n6n before Troy, and who on their return from the siege had been driven on the spot by a storm and there settled.? The Pamphylians, on the southern coast of Asia Minor, deduced their the chariot-race at the funeral games of Patrocltis, was shown at Delphi in the time of Phanias, attested by an inscription, as well as the dagger which had been worn by Helikaon, son of Antenor ("Athene, vi. p. 232). 1 Virgil, JEneid, iii. 399. ; xi. 265 ; and Servius, ibid. Ajax, the son of Olleus, was worshipped there as a hero (Conon, Narr. 18). 2 Strabo, iii. p. 257; Isokrates, Evngor. Encom. p. 192; Justin, xliv. 3. Ajax, the son of Teukros, established a temple of Zeus, and an hereditary priesthood always held by his descendants ("who mostly bore the name of Ajax or Teukros), at Olbe in Kilikia ( Strabo, xir. p. 672). Teukros carried with him his Trojan captives to Cyprus (Athenae. vi. p. 256). 3 Strabo, iii. p. 140-150 ; vi. p. 261 ; xiii. p. 622. See the epitaphs on Teukros and Agapenor by Aristotle (Antholog. Gr. ed. Brunck. i. p. 179-180). 4 Strfcbo, xiv. p. 683 ; Pausan. viii. 5, 2. 6 Strabo, vi. p. 263 ; Justin, xx. 2 ; Aristot. Mirab. Ausc. c. 108. Also tho epigram of the Rhodian Simmias called HeheKvc (Antholog. Gr. Brunck. i. p. 210). Vellei. Patercul. i. 1. Stephan. Byz. v. ufnrij. Strabo, xiii. p. 605 ; xiv p. 639. Theopompus (Fragm. Ill, Didot) recounted that Agamemnon and fiis followers had possessed themselves of the larger portion of Cyprus 7 Thucydid. iv. 120.