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 MEMORIALS OF THE DISPERSED HEROES. 313 origin from the wanderings of Amphilochus and Kalclias after the siege of Troy : the inhabitants of the Amphilochian Argos on the Gulf of Ambrakia revered the same Amphilochus as their founder. 1 The Orchomenians under lalmenus, on quitting the conquered city, wandered or were driven to the eastern extremity of the Euxine Sea ; and the barbarous Achaeans under Mount Caucasus were supposed to have derived their first establishment from this source. 2 Meriones with his Kretan followers settled at Engyion in Sicily, along with the preceding Kretans who had remained there after the invasion of Minos. The Elyminians in Sicily also were composed of Trojans and Greeks separately driven to the spot, who, forgetting their previous differences, united in the joint settlements of Eryx and Egesta. 3 We hear of Podaleirius both in Italy and on the coast of Karia ; 4 of Aka- mas, son of Theseus, at Amphipolis in Thrace, at Soli in Cyprus, and at Synnada in Phrygia ; 5 of Guneus, Prothous and Eurypy- lus, in Krete as well as in Libya.6 The obscure poem of Ly- cophron enumerates many of these dispersed and expatriated heroes, whose conquest of Troy was indeed a Kadmeian victory (according to the proverbial phrase of the Greeks), wherein the sufferings of the victor were little inferior to those of the van- quished. 7 It was particularly among the Italian Greeks, where they were worshipped with very special solemnity, that their presence as wanderers from Troy was reported and believed. 8 1 Herodot. vii. 91 ; Thucyd. ii. 68. According to the old elegiac poet Kallinos, Kalchas himself had died at Klarus near Kolophon after his march from Troy, but Mopsus, his rival in the prophetic function, had conducted his followers into Pamphylia and Kilikia(Strabo, xii. p. 570; xiv.p. 668). The oracle of Amphilochus at Mallus in Kilikia bore the highest character for exactness and truth-telling in the time of Pausamas, fiavrelov uTpevdeffTarov TUV n' Efj-ov (Paus. i. 34, 2). Another story recognized Leonteus and Poly- pastes as the founders of Aspendus in Kilikia (Eustath. ad Iliad, ii. 138). 2 Strabo, ix. p. 416. 3 Diod&r. iv. 79 ; Thucyd. vi. 2. 4 Stephan, Byz. v. "Zvpva; Lycophron, 1047. 8 JEschines, De Fals& Legat. c. 14 ; Strabo, xiv. p. 683 ; Stephan. Byz. v. 'ZvvvaSa. 6 Lycophron, 877-902, with Scholia; Apollodor. Fragm. p. 386, Heyne. There is also a long enumeration of these returning wanderers and of new settlements in Solinus (Polyhist. c. 2_). 7 Strabo, iii. p. 150. VOL. I. 14
 * Aristot. Mirabil. Auscult. 79, 106, 107, 109 ; ill.