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 & HISTORY OF GREECE. The lonians retired to Attica, many of them taking part in what is called the Ionic emigration to the coast of Asia Minor, which followed shortly after. Pausanias, indeed, tells us that Tisame- nus, having gained a decisive victory over the lonians, fell in the engagement, 1 and did not himself live to occupy the country of which his troops remained masters. But this story of the death of Tisamenus seems to arise from a desire, on the part of Pau- sanias, to blend together into one narrative two discrepant le- gends ; at least the historical Achseans in later times continued to regard Tisamenus himself as having lived and reigned in their territory, and as having left a regal dynasty which lasted down to Ogyges,' 3 after whom it was exchanged for a popular govern- ment. 3 The conquest of Temenus, the eldest of the three Hcrakleids, originally comprehended only Argos and its neighborhood ; it was from thence that Troezen, Epidaurus, ^Egina, SikyOn, and Phlius were successfully occupied by Dorians, the sons and son-in-law of Temenus Deiphontes, Phalkes, and Keisus being the leaders under whom this was accomplished. 4 At Sparta, the suc- cess of the Dorians was furthered by the treason of a man named Philonomus, who received as recompense the neighboring town and territory of Amykloe. 5 Messenia is said to have sub- mitted without resistance to the dominion of the Herakleid Kres phontes, who established his residence at Stenyklarus : the Py- lian Melanthus, then ruler of the country, and representative of the great mythical lineage of Neleus and Nestor, withdrew with ' Pausan. vii. 1-3. s Polyb. ii. 45; iv. 1; Strabo, viii. pp. 383-384. This Tisamenus de- rives his name from the memorable act of revenge ascribed to his father Orestes. So, in the legend of the Siege of Thebes, Thcrsander, as one of the Epigoni, avenged his father Polynikfis : the son of Thersander was also called Tisamenus ("Herodot. iv. 149). Compare 0. Muller, Dorians, i. p. 69 note 9, Eng. Trans. 3 Diotlor. iv. 1. The historian Ephorus embodied in his work a narrativa in considerable detail of this grand event of Grecian legend, the Return of the Herakleids, with which he professed to commence his consecutive hi lory : from what sources he borrowed we do not know. 4 Strabo, viii. p. 389. Pausan. ii. 6, 2 ; 12, 1.
 * Conon, Nar. 36 ; Strabo, viii. p. 305