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 LEBEDUS, TEGS, KLAZOMEN^, ETC. ]g,' > , and very different from that of the Kolophonian townsmen in the time of Mimnermus. It seems evident that not only the Apollinic sanctuary at Klarus, but also the analogous establishments on the south of Asia Minor at Phaselis, Mallus, etc., had their ovn foun- dation legends (apart from those of the various bands of emigrant settlers), in which they connected themselves by the best thread which they could devise with the epic glories of Greece. l Passing along the Ionian coast in a north-westerly direction from Kolcphon, we come first to the small but independent Ionic settle- ment of Lebedus next, to Teos, which occupies the southern face of a narrow isthmus, Klazoinenje being placed on the north- ern : this isthmus, a low narrow valley of about six miles across, forms the eastern boundary of a very considerable peninsula, containing the mountainous and woody regions called Mimas and Korykus. Teos is said to have been first founded by Orchome- nian Minyte under Athamas, and to have received afterwards by consent various swarms of settlers, Orchomeniaus and others, under the Kodrid leaders Apcekus, Nauklus, and Damasus. 2 The valu- able Teian inscriptions published in the large collection of Boeckh. while they mention certain names and titles of honor which con- nect themselves with this Orchomenian origin, reveal to us at the same time some particulars respecting the internal distribution of the Teian citizens. The territory of the town was distributed amongst a certain number of towers, to each of which corresponded a symmory or section of the citizens, having its common altar and sacred rites, and often its heroic eponymus. How many in num- ber the tribes of Teos were, we do not know : the name of the Geleontes, one of the four old Ionic tribes, is preserved in an inscription ; but the rest, both as to names and number, are un- known. The syinrnories or tower-fellowships of Teos seem to be analogous to the phratries of ancient Athens, forming each a factitious kindred, recognizing a common mythical ancestor, and bound together by a communion at once religious and political. The individual name attached to each tower is in some cases Asiatic rather than Hellenic, indicating in Teos the mixture not 1 See Welcker, Epischer Kyklus. p. 285. calle-i the town 'Ai?auai>rt'Ja TC<J. (Strab. '. c.)
 * Steph Byz. v, Tt'ojf ; Pausan. vii, 3, 3 ; Strabo, xiv, p. 633. Anakreon