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 190 HISTORY OF GREECE. CHAPTER XIV. JEOLIG GREEKS IN ASIA. ON the coast of Asia Minor to the north of the twelve Ionic confederated cities, were situated the twelve -ZEolic cities, appar- ently united in a similar manner. Besides Smyrna, the fate of which has already been described, the eleven others were, Temnos, Larissa, Neon-Teichos, Kyme, ^Egos, Myrina, Gryneium, Killa, Notium, .ZEgiroessa, Pitane. These twelve are especially noted by Herodotus as the twelve ancient continental JEolic cities, and distinguished on the one hand from the insular ^Eolic Greeks, in Lesbos, Tenedos, and Ilekatonnesoi, and on the other hand from the JEolic establishments in and about Mount Ida, which seem to have been subsequently formed and derived from Lesbos and Kyme. 1 Of these twelve ^Eolic towns, eleven were situated very near together, clustered round the Elastic gulf: their territories, all of moderate extent, seem also to have been conterminous with each other. Smyrna, the twelfth, was situated to the south of Mount Sipylus, and at a greater distance from the remainder, one reason why it was so soon lost to its primitive inhabitants. These towns occupied chiefly a narrow but fertile strip of terri- tory lying between the base of the woody mountain-range called Sardene and the sea. 2 Gryneium, like Kolophon and Miletus, possessed a venerated sanctuary of Apollo, of older date than the JEolic emigration. Larissa, Temnos, and JEgae were at some little distance from the sea : the first at a short distance north of the Hermus, by which its territory was watered and occasionally inundated, so as to render embankments necessary ; 3 the last two 1 Hcrodot. i. 149. Herodotus docs not name Elrca, at the month of the Kaikus : on the other hand, no other author mentions TEgiroessa (see Man- ncrt, Geogr. der Gr. und Romer, b.viii, p. 396). vtiaTov inliiKo/ioio. 3 Btrabo, xiii, p. G21.
 * Herod, vt sup. ; Pscudo- Hcrodot Vit. Homcri c. 9.