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The history and antiquities of the Doric race, / by C.O. Müller, ... ; Translated from the German by Henry Tufnell, Esq. and George Cornewall Lewis, Esq.

Karl Otfried Müller

Date:: MDCCCXXX. [1830]

Credit: The history and antiquities of the Doric race, / by C.O. Müller, ... ; Translated from the German by Henry Tufnell, Esq. and George Cornewall Lewis, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Euboean town of fficlialia also formed, as I con- jecture, part of the subject. yEgimius was however supposed to reign in Hestiaeotis, merely because the Dorians bordered in this direction upon the Lapithae; lie was easily carried over to the second settlements of the race under mount (Eta This hero is in ge- neral the fabulous progenitor and hero of the Doric nation; hence Pindar called the customs and laws of that people “ the ordinances of yEgimius V’ Never- theless only two branches of the nation are stated to be descended from him, viz. the Dymanes and Pamphylians; the third and most distinguished, viz. the Hylleans, was supposed to be descended from Hyllus the son of Hercules, and adopted l>y iEgimius. And as the landed property, was in the Doric states equally divided between these tribes, Hercules was fabled to have received for his de- scendants a third part of the territory, which be- longed of right to the Hylleans. This triple division of the land was expressly mentioned by the ej)ic poet, who used the word to express that the Dorians had obtained and shared among them- selves, at a distance from their native country, (chiefly in the Pelo])onnese f^,) a territory appor- —S’ iv 'A(iccvri'ht S/>j, ’A/3a»T/S<56 xIkX'/i^kov $eot unv VovTis T'AV 'TOT i’TTOJVVf/.AV KuplOIOCV fioOi These are followed by the four verses concerning Argos and lo quoted by Schol. Eurip. Phoen. 115 I. Apollodorus II, 1.3. alludes to this passage. Also what he mentions from this poem in II. i. 4. belongs to the Euboean fables. Com- pare Fabric. Bibliothec. vol. I. p. 592. ed. Harles. See Ephorus ap. Steph. Byzant. in Avfjiaves (p. 96. ed. Marx.), followed by Strabo IX. p. 654 A. * Book III. ch. I. §. 7. ^ Etymol. Magn. TpixaiKes,— Hcriodos 8ia to Tpixfj avTovs ol- Krj(Tai, oiov' UdvT€s yap TpixaUes KoXeovTO OvveKa rpia-arjv yaiav fKas TraTprjs e^danvTO. Tpia yap

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