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 ISO HISTORY OF GKKKC1', and O. Miiller oven conceives the Tyrrhenians to have been Pelasgians from Tyrrha, a town in the interior of Lydia south of Tmolus. The point is one upon which we have not sufficient evidence to advance beyond conjecture. 1 Of the Ionic towns, with which our real knowledge of Asia Minor begins, Miletus 2 was the most powerful ; and its celebrity was derived not merely from its own wealth and population, but also from the extraordinary number of its colonies, established principally in the Propontis and Euxine, and amounting, as we are told by some authors, to not less than seventy-five or eighty. Respecting these colonies I shall speak presently, in treating of the general colonial expansion of Greece during the eighth and seventh centuries B. c. : at present, it is sufficient to notice that the islands of Ikarus and Lerus, 3 not far from Samos and the Ionic coast generally, were among the places planted with Milesian settlers. The colonization of Ephesus by Androklus appears to be con- nected with the Ionic occupation of Samos, so far as the confused statements which we find enable us to discern. Androklus is said 1 Strabo, xiii, p. 621. Sec Niebulir, Klcinc Historische Schriften, p. 371 , O. Mailer, Etrusker, Einlcitung ii, 5, p. 80. The evidence on which Mailer's conjecture is built seems, however, unusually slender, and the identity of Tyrrhenes and Torrhebos, or the supposed confusion of the one with the other, is in no way made out. Pelasgians arc spoken of in Tralles and Aphrodisias as well as in Ninoe (Steph. Byz. v, Nivor]),>ttt this name seems destined to present nothing but problems and delusions. Respecting Magnesia on the Maeandcr, consult Aristot. np. Athen. iv, p. 173, who calls the town a colony from Delphi. But the intermediate settle- ment of these colonists in Krete, or even the reality of any town called Magnesia in Krete, appears very questionable: Plato's statement (Legg. iv, 702 ; xi, 919) can hardly be taken as any evidence. Compare O. Muller, History of the Dorians, book ii, ch. 3 ; Hoeckh, Kreta, book iii, vol. ii, p. 413. Muller gives these " Sagen " too much in the style of real facts : the worship of Apollo at Magnesia on the Maeander (Paus. x, 32, 4) cannot be thought to prove much, considering how extensively that god was worshipped along the Asiatic coast, from Lykia to Troas. The great antiquity of this Grecian establishment was recognized in the time of the Roman emperors; see Inscript. No. 2910 in Boeckh, Corp. Ins. 2 'luvirjf npnax'nfJ.a (Herodot. v, 28). 3 Strabo, xiv, p. 635. Ikarus, or Ikaria, however, appears in later times a belonging to Samos, and used only for pasture (Strabo, p. 639; x, p. 488).