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 RETURN OF THE HERAKLEIDS. J) became intimately united together into one social communion. Pamphylus and Djmas, sons of ^Egimius, accompanied Temenus and his two brothers in their invasion of Peloponnesus. Such is the mythical incident which professes to explain the origin of those three tribes into which all the Dorian communities were usually divided, the Hylleis, the Phamphyli, and the Dymanes, the first of the three including certain particular fam- ilies, such as that of the kings of Sparta, who bore the special name of Herakleids. Hyllus, Pamphylus, and Dymas are the eponymous heroes of the three Dorian tribes. Temenus and his two brothers resolved to attack Peloponnesus, not by a land-march along the Isthmus, such as that in which Hyllus had been previously slain, but by sea, across the narrow inlet between the promontories of Rhiuin and Antirrhium, with which the Gulf of Corinth commences. According to one story, indeed, which, however, does not seem to have been known to Herodotus, they are said to have selected this line of march by the express direction of the Delphian god, who vouchsafed to expound to them an oracle which had been delivered to Hyllus in the ordinary equivocal phraseology. Both the Ozolian Lo- krians, and the JEtolians, inhabitants of the northern coast of the Gulf of Corinth, were favorable to the enterprise, and the former granted to them a port for building their ships, from which memo- rable circumstance the port ever afterwards bore the name of Naupaktus. Aristodemus was here struck with lightning and died, leaving twin sons, Eurysthenes and Prokles ; but his remain- ing brothers continued to press the expedition with alacrity. At this juncture, an Akarnanian prophet named Karnus pre- sented himself in the camp 1 under the inspiration of Apollo, and which it bears seems to imply that the war of JEgimius against the Lapitha^ and the aid given to him by Herakles, was one of its chief topics. Both 0. Miiller (History of the Dorians, vol. i. b. 1, c. 8) and Welcker (Der Epische Kyklus, p. 263) appear to me to go beyond the very scanty evidence which we possess, in their determination of this last poem ; compare Marktscheftel, Praefat. Hcsiod. Fragm. cap. 5, p. 159. 1 Eespecting this prophet, compare CEnomans ap. Eusebium, Prseparat. Evangel, v. p. 211. According to that statement, both KJeodteus (here called Aridceus) son of Hyllus, and Aristomachus son of Kleodasus, had made sep- arate and snccessive attempts at the head of the Herakleids to penetrate into Peloponnesus through the Isthmus : both had failed and perished, haviny