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 EMIGRANTS TO IONIA. 17J, emigration, this large scale of legendary conception is more than usually conspicuous, since to that event is ascribed the foundation or repeopling both of the Cyclades and of the Asiatic Ionian cities. Euripides treats Ion, 1 the son of Kreusa by Apollo, as the planter of these latter cities : but the more current form of the legend assigns that honor to the sons of Kodrus, two of whom are especially named, corresponding to the two greatest of the ten continental Ionic cities : Androklus, as founder of Ephesus, Neileus of Miletus. These two towns are both described as founded directly from Athens. The others seem rather to be separate settlements, neither consisting of Athenians, nor emanat- ing from Athens, but adopting the characteristic Ionic festival of the Apaturia, and, in part at least, the Ionic tribes, and re- ceiving princes from the Ivodrid families at Ephesus or Miletus, as a condition of being admitted into the Pan-Ionic confederate festival. The poet Mimnermus ascribed the foundation of his native city Kolophon to emigrants from Pylus, in Peloponnesus, under Andnemon : Teos was settled by Minyae of Orchomenua, under Athamas : Klazomence by settlers from Kleonaj and Phli- us, Phokosa, by Phocians, Priene in large portion by Kadmeians from Thebes. And with regard to the powerful islands of Chios and Samos, it does not appear that their native authors, the Chian poet Ion, or the Samaian poet Asius, ascribed to them a population emanating from Athens : Pausanias could not make out from the poems of Ion how it happened that Chios came to form a part of the Ionic federation. 2 Herodotus, especially, dwells upon the number of Grecian tribes and races, who con- tributed to supply the population of the twelve Ionic cities,. Minyoe, from Orchomenus, Kadmeians, Dryopians, Phocians, Molossians, Arkadian Pelasgians, Dorians from Epidaurus, and " several other sections" of Greeks. Moreover, he particularly 1 Euripid. Ion, 1546. Krcarop' 'Ac txtlvof ye elpjjKK, oi?' qvTiva alriav XIoi T&OVGIV f 'Iwrcr. Respecting Samos, and its primitive Karian inhabitants, displaced by Pa trokleo and Tembrion at the head of Grecian emigrants, see Ety^iol. H[ag. v
 * Pausan. vii, 4, 6. ToaavTa slpijKo-a ic Xo>t>f 'luva eipioxu ov /mi ot