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 184 HISTORY OF GRKECi. times in which this port served the Kolophonians as a refuge, when their upper town was assailed by Persians from the interior ; but the inhabitants of Notium occasionally manifested inclinations to act as a separate community, and dissensions thus occurred between them and the people in Kolophon, 1 so difficult was it in the Greek mind to keep up a permanent feeling of political amalgamation beyond the circle of the town walls. It is much to be regretted that nothing beyond a few lines of Mimnermus, and nothing at all of the long poem of Xenophanea (composed seemingly near a century after Mimnermus) on the foundation of Kolophon, has reached us. The short statements of Pausanias omit all notice of that violence which the native Kolophonian poet so emphatically signalizes in his ancestors : they are derived more from the temple legends of the adjoining Kla- rian Apollo and from morsels of epic poetry referring to that holy place, which connected itself with the worship of Apollo in Krete, at Delphi, and at Thebes. The old Homeric poem, called The- bai's, reported that Manto, daughter of the Theban prophet Tei- resias, had been presented to Apollo at Delphi as a votive offering by the victorious epigoni : the god directed her to migrate to Asia, and she thus arrived at Klarus, where she married the Kretan Rhakius. The offspring of this marriage was the celebrated prophet Mopsus, whom the Hesiodic epic described as having gained a victory in prophetic skill over Kalchas ; the latter having come to Klarus after the Trojan war in company with Amphilo- chus son of Amphiaraus. 2 Such tales evince the early importance of the temple and oracle of Apollo at Klarus, which appears to have been in some sort an emanation from the great sanctuary of Branchidic near Miletus ; for we are told that the high priest of Klarus was named by the Milesians. 3 Pausanias states that Mopsus expelled the indigenous Karians, and established the city of Kolophon ; and that the Ionic settlers under Promethus and Damasichthon, sons of Kodrus, were admitted amicably as addi- tional inhabitants : 4 a story probably emanating from the temple, 1 Aristot. Polit. v, 2, 12 ; Thucyd. iii, 34. 8 Hcsiod. ap. Strab. xiv, p. 643 ; Conor), Narrat. 6 ; Argument of the poem tailed Noffrot (apud Diintzcr), Epicc. Graec. Frag. p. 23; Pausan. ix, 35,
 * Tacit Anual. ii, 54. 4 Pausan. vii, 3, 1.