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 20 HISTORY OF GREECE. is still preserved by Pindar and by Hellanikus. 1 But the more current narratives represented the descendants of Orestes as chiefs of the expeditions to JEolis, his illegitimate son Pen- thilus, by Erigone daughter of JEgisthus, 2 together with Echela- tus and Gras, the son and grandson of Penthilus, together with Kleues and Malaus, descendants of Agamemnon through another lineage. According to the account given by Strabo, Orestes be- gan the emigration, but died on his route in Arcadia ; his son Penthilus, taking the guidance of the emigrants, conducted them by the long land-journey through Brcotia and Thessaly to Thrace; 3 from whence Archelaus, ' son of Penthilus, led them across the Hellespont, and settled at Daskylium on the Propon- tis. Gras, son of Archelaus, crossed over to Lesbos and pos- sessed himself of the island. Kleues and Malaus, conducting another body of Achasans, were longer on their journey, and lingered a considerable time near Mount Phrikium, in the terri- tory of Lokris ; ultimately, however, they passed over by sea to Asia and took possession of Kyme, south of the Gulf of Adra- myttium, the most considerable of all the JEolic cities on the continent. 4 From Lesbos and Kyme, the other less considerable ^Eolic towns, spreading over the region of Ida as well as the Troad, and comprehending the island of Tenedos, are said to have derived their origin. Though there are many differences in the details, the accounts agree in representing these JEolic settlements as formed by the 1 Pindar, Nem. xi. 43 ; Ilcllanic. Fragm. 114, ed. Didot. Compare Ste j)han. Byz. v. Iltpn'tfof. 2 Kinaethon ap. Pausan. ii. 18, 5. Penthilids existed in Lesbos during the historical times (Aristot. Polit. v. 10, 2). 3 It has sometimes been supposed that the country called Thrace here means the residence of the Thracians near Parnassus ; but the length of the journey, and the number of years which it took up, are so specially marked, that I think Thrace in its usual and obvious sense must be intended. 4 Strabo, xiii. p. 582. Hellanikus seems to have treated of this delay near Mount Phrikium ("see Steph. Byz. v. fypiitiov). In another account (xiii. p. 621), problily copied from the Kymaean Ephorus, Strabo connects the estab- lishments of this colony with the sequel of the Trojan war : the Pelasgians. the occupants of the territory, who had been the allies of Priam, wero weakened by the defeat which they had sustained and unable to resist th emigrants.