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 B. xin. c. i. 59, 60. THE TROAD. 383 habitants, so that Demetrius the Scepsian says that, instead of being .^Eolians, the people became semi-barbarians. In the time of Homer all these places belonged to Leleges, whom some writers represent as Carians, but Homer distinguishes them, " Near the sea are Carians, and Pseonians with curved bows, Leleges, and Caucones." J The Leleges were therefore a different people from the Cari- ans, and lived between the people subject to JEneas and the Cilicians, as they are called by the poet. After being plun- dered by Achilles, they removed to Caria, and occupied the country about the present Halicarnassus. 59. Pedasus, the city which they abandoned, is no longer in existence. But in the interior of the country belonging to the people of Halicarnassus there was a city called by them Pedasa, and the territory has even now the name of Pedasis. It is said that this district contained eight cities, occupied by the Leleges, who were formerly so populous a nation as to possess Caria as far as Myndus, Bargylia, and a great part of Pisidia. In later times, when they united with the Carians in their expeditions, they were dispersed throughout the whole of Greece, and the race became extinct. Mausolus, according to Callisthenes, assembled in Halicar- nassus 2 alone the inhabitants of six out of the eight cities, but allowed Suangela and Myndus to remain untouched. Herodo- tus 3 relates that whenever anything unfortunate was about to befall the inhabitants of Pedasus 4 and the neighbourhood a beard appeared on the face of the priestess of Minerva, and that this happened three times. There is now existing in the territory of the Stratoniceis 5 a small town called Pedasum. There are to be seen through- out the whole of Caria and at Miletus sepulchres, and for- tifications, and vestiges of settlements of the Leleges. 60. The tract of sea-coast following next after the Leleges was occupied, according to Homer, by Cilicians, but at present it is occupied by Adramytteni, Atarneitoe, and Pitanasi as far as the mouth of the Caicus. The Cilicians were divided into ans at the time Gargara received colonists. Mualitsh is the modern name of Miletopolis. 1 II. x. 428. * Budrun, the birth-place of Herodotus. 3 Herod, i. 175; viii. 104. 4 Paitschin ? 5 Eski-Hissar.