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 208 HISTORY OF GREECE. donians, Mysians, and Phrygians. Along the southern coast of the Propontis, between the rivers Rhyndakus and -ZEsepus, in immediate neighborhood with the powerful Greek colony of Ky- zikus, appear the Doliones ; next, Pelasgians at Plakia and Sky lake ; then again, along the coast of the Hellespont near Abydus and Lampsakus, and occupying a portion of the Troad, we find mention made of other Bebrykians. 1 In the interior of the Troad, or the region of Ida, are Teukrians and Mysians : the latter seem to extend southward down to Pergamus and the region of Mount Sipylus, and eastward to the mountainous re- gion called the Mysian Olympus, south of the lake Askanius, near which they join with the Phrygians. 2 As far as any positive opinion can be formed respecting nations of whom we know so little, it would appear that the Mysians and Phrygians are a sort of connecting link between Lydians and Karians on one side, and Thracians (European as well as Asiatic) on the other, a remote ethnical affinity pervading the whole. Ancient migrations are spoken of in both directions across the Hellespont and the Thracian Bosphorus. It was the opinion of some that Phrygians, Mysians, and Thracians had emigrated into Asia from Europe, and the Lydian historian Xan- thus referred the arrival of the Phrygians to an epoch subsequent to the Trojan war. 3 On the other hand, Herodotus speaks of a vast body of Teukrians and Mysians, who, before the Trojan war, had crossed the strait from Asia into Europe, expelled many of the European Thracians from their seats, crossed the Stry- mon and the Macedonian rivers, and penetrated as far southward as the river Peneus in Thessaly, as far westward as the Ionic compound of the primitive Qvvoi; perhaps, also, Be,3pv/cef stands in the same relation to B/jtyef, or $pvyt;. Hcllanikus wrote Ol'fj.f3piov Ai<(i<3piov (Steph. Byz. in v). Ivios is Mysian in Herodotus, v, 122 : according to Sky lax, the coast from the gulf of Astakus to that of Kios is Mysia (c. 93). 1 Charon of Lampsakus, Fr. 7, ed. Didot. Xupuv de yrjal nal rr/v Aa/z^a- irjvuv x^P av Kporfpav Be/3/HJ/a'av na^ela-dai and TUV KaTOiKrjcuvruv ai/r// beBpvKuv rij de yevof avruv qyuviaTai. dtu roi) yevoiiEvovf note/iovf. Stubo^ xiii, p. 586; Conon, Narr. 12; Dionys. Hal. i, 54. 564-575. 3 Xaath. Fragm. 5, ed. Pidot.
 * Hekata?us, Frag. 204, cd. Dido ; Apollotfjr. i, 9, 18; Strabo, xi pp