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 SMYRNA. ]gg place for themselves, at a moment when the Smyrnceans had gone forth in a body to celebrate a religious festival. The other ^Eolie towns sent auxiliaries for the purpose of reestablishing their dispossessed brethren ; but they were compelled to submit to an accommodation, whereby the lonians retained possession of the town, restoring to the prior inhabitants all their movables. Thesrf exiles were distributed as citizens among the other JEolic cities. 1 Smyrna after this became wholly Ionian ; and the inhabitants in later times, if we may judge by Aristeides the rhetor, appear to hav.5 forgotten the .2Eolic origin of their town, though the fact is attested both by Herodotus and by Mimnermus. 2 At what time the change took place, we do not know; but Smyrna ap- pears to have become Ionian before the celebration of the 23d Olympiad, when Onomastus the Smyrnrcan gained the prize. 3 Nor have we information as to the period at which the city was received as a member into the Pan-Ionic amphiktyony, for the assertion of Vitruvius is obviously inadmissible, that it was ad- mitted at the instance of Attalus, king of Pergamus, in place of a previous town called Melite, excluded by the rest for misbeha- vior. 4 As little can we credit the statement of Strabo, that the city of Smyrna was destroyed by the Lydian kings, and that the inhabitants were compelled to live in dispersed villages until its restoration by Antigonus- A fragment of Pindar, which speaks of " the elegant city of the Smyrnceans, " indicates that it must have existed in his time. 5 The town of Ene, near Lebedus, though seemingly autonomous, 6 was not among the contributors to the Pan-Ionian : Myonnesus seems to have been a dependency of Teos, as Pygela and Marathesium were of Ephesus. Notium, after its recolonization by the Athenians during the Peloponne- sian war, seems to have remained separate from and independent of Kolophon : at least the two are noticed by Skylax as distinct towns. 7 1 Ilcrod. i, 150; Mimncrmus, Fragm. Oeuv /3ov?.y Z/u'pi'iyv elXofiev io7ufia. Aristeides, Orat. xx-xxi, pp. 260, 267. 3 Pansan. v, 8, 3. 4 Vitruvius, iv, 1. 5 Stmbo, xiv, p. 04 f>: Pindar, FniLT. 155, Disscn. ' Thncydid viii, I'.). 7 Skylax, e. 07 Tlmryd. iii. 34-
 * Sec Raoul Ixocbctto, Ilistoirc des Colonies Grccques, 1>. iv. ch. 5, p. 43