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 AMPHIKTYOXIES. 244 of reverence, common duties, and common enjoyments ; lliua generating sympathies and feelings of mutual obligation amidst petty communities not less fierce than suspicious. 1 So, too, the twelve chief Ionic cities in and near Asia Minor, had their Pan- Ionic Amphiktyony peculiar to themselves : the six Doric cities, in and near the southern corner of that peninsula, combined for the like purpose at the temple of the Triopian Apollo ; and the feeling of special partnership is here particularly illustrated by the fact, that Halikarnassus, one of the six, was formally extruded by the remaining five, in consequence of a violation of the rules. 2 There was also an Amphiktyonic union at Onchestus in Breotia, in the venerated grove and temple of Poseidon : 3 of whom it consisted, we are not informed. These are some specimens of the sort of special religious conventions and assemblies which seem to have been frequent throughout Greece. Nor ought we to omit those religious meetings and sacrifices which were com- mon to all the members of one Hellenic subdivision, such as the Pam-Boeotia to all the Boeotians, celebrated at the temple of the Itonian Athene near Koroneia, 4 the common observances, rendered to the temple of Apollo Pythaeus at Argos, by all those neighboring towns which had once been attached by this religious 1 At lolkos. on the north coast of the Gulf of Pagasse, and at the borders of the Magnetes, Thessalians, and Achaeans of Phthiotis, was celebrated a periodical religious festival, or panegyris, the title of which we are prevented from making out by the imperfection of Strabo's text (Strabo, ix. 436). It stands in the text as printed in Tzschucke's edition, 'Evravda 6e nal TT/V TivTiaiKi/v Travtiyvptv, OVVETE^OVV. The mention of flu/lai'/c^ Travf/yvpif, which conducts us only to the Amphiktyonic convocations of Thermopylae and Delphi is here unsuitable ; and the best or Parisian MS. of Strabo presents a gap (one among the many which embarrass the ninth book) in the place of the word HvTia'iKijv. Dutneil conjectures TTJV 17 rttaKr/v Travqyvptv, deriv- ing the name from the celebrated funeral games of the old epic celebrated by Akastus in honor of his father Pelias. Grosskurd (in his note on the passage) approves the conjecture, but it seems to me not probable that a Grecian panegyris would be named after Pelias. Il^/U'a/c^v, in reference to the neighboring mountain and town of Pclion, might perhaps be less ob- jectionable (see Dikaearch. Fragm. pp. 407-409, ed. Fuhr.), but we cannot determine with certainty. 3 Strabo, ix. p. 412 ; Homer. Hymn. Apoll. 232. 4 Strabo, ix. p. 411.
 * Herod, i. ; Dionys. Hal. iv. 25.