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γνώμας ἀρίστας: cf. viii. 68 f., 101 f.

ἀποφαίνω, ‘I declare’ (cf. ii. 16. 1). As a Halicarnassian himself H. speaks confidently.

The ascription of the foundation of Halicarnassus to Troezen seems to rest on the family tradition of the Ἀνθεάδαι, who held by right of birth the priesthood at the Posidonion (C.I.G. 2655) and claimed descent from Anthes, son of Poseidon. Strabo (656) attributes the foundation to Anthes (οἴκισται δ᾽ αὐτῆς ἐγένοντο ἄλλοι τε καὶ Ἄνθης μετὰ Τροιζηνίων); Pausanias (ii. 30. 9) to his descendants. Halicarnassus certainly honoured Troezen as its mother-city (Paus. ii. 32. 6), but the connexion does not prove Dorism, both cities being half Ionic.

A bond of connexion between Epidaurus and Cos may be found in their devotion to the worship of Asclepius, under the charge of the Asclepiads, among them Hippocrates (Plato, Phaedr. 270 C, Prot. 311 B). Apparently before the Dorian immigration Cos had already been colonized from Thessaly (Il. ii. 676 f.; Tac. Ann. xii. 61). Calymna and Nisyros were later occupied from Cos (Diod. v. 54).

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