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Λύκιοι supplied fifty ships. The Lykian equipment is amoug the most remarkable: it is in strong contrast witb the Lykian dress as shown on monuments, from which Rawlinson draws an argument for the late date of the monuments (so as to give the Lykians time to change tbeir dress): an alternative, bowever, is possible—the inaccuracy, or inapplicability of Hdt.'s description. The Lykians wear breastplates and greaves (of metal presumably): tbeir bows are of cornel-wood (cp. c. 77 supra): tbey use unfeathered reed-arrows: tbey carry javelins: they wear tbe aegis: tbey have the most remarkable headdress iu the whole army: they carry also daggers and sickles (Karian? cp. c. 93 infra, 5. 112).
πίλους πτεροῖσι περιεστεφανωμένους: on the importance of tbis headdress cp. W. Max Mueller, Asien u. Europa 362. Also H. R. Hall, Oldest Civilisation p. 180 (1901): “examples of this featber beaddress worn by tribes of tbe Aegean and soutbern coast of Asia Miuor in the xii. viii. vii. v. centuries B.C.”
Λύκιοι δὲ...τὴν ἐπωνυμίην. This passage is enlarged and rewritten in 1. 173, or else tbat passage is here reproduced in a compressed form: there is not mucb to sbow whicb passage is of earlier composition, except the omission here of all reference to tbe longer passage, in wbich tbe supposed facts are more fully set out, which, so far as it goes, supports the bypotbesis of the earlier composition of this passage: cp. Introduction, § 8. Τερμίλαι ... ἐκ Κρήτης. The Kretan origin of tbe Termilai, or Tramilai, seems less probable than tbe hypotbesis that tbey represented the indigenous population of tbe Anatolian main, and were in so far allied to tbe Karians, Lydians and other native stocks. Yet it would be bold to deny a connexion between early Krete and the Asianic side: and the ‘Eteokretes’ tbemselves may perhaps bave been akin to the fundamental or indigenous population of Asia Minor. In 1. 171 tbe Karians, too, are derived by Hdt. from Krete in the teeth of their own behef, duly reported, that made tbem αὐτόχθονας ἠπειρώτας. The decipherment of the Lykian inscriptions (Tituli Asiae Minoris: vol. i. Tituli Lyciae, ed. E. Kalinka, Vienna, 1901) may throw ligbt upon the etbnological problem: it is at least clear that tbe Tramilai were not Greeks. The poet of tbe Iliad is acquainted with Lykia and the Lykians tbough not witb Tramilai: (notably 6. 168 ff. story of Bellerophontes, cp. also story of Pandaros: 4. 86 ff.); and long before the days of Homer the Lykians (Lukki, Lnka) figure in the Tel-el-Amarna letters and on Egyptian monuments of the Ramessid period: cp. Hall, Oldest Civilisation, p. 88. ‘Lykians’ and ‘Termilai’ might be two names (Greck and Native) for one and tbe same people, or more probably (as ‘Termilai’ figures in Greek) represent two elements in the population of historic Lykia, the native and the foreign (Hellenic, or Hellenized). The presence of an Hellenic element is asserted in the eponymous hero's derivation from Athens. It is by no means impossible that tbe primitive, or ‘Mykenaian’ inhabitants of Attika had relations with Lykia as with Ionia and Kypros; but ‘Lykos son of Pandion’ (a) is scarcely an historical person, (b） owes his position in the legend of ‘Lykia’ to the nominal correspondence. Pausan. 1. 19. 4 connects the name with the Lukeion (Lycaeum) in Atbens, which may bave been in fact the temenos of tbe wolf-god (Apollon?).
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