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The name Τερμίλαι is confirmed by quotations from Hecataeus and Panyasis (fr. 364, F. H. G. i. 30; iii. 236), and by the TRXM*lI of the Harpagus obelisk in the British Museum.

The aetiological myth as to the name ‘Lycians’ is part of the expansion of the Theseus story (Aegeus was the human father of Theseus), which accompanied the rise of Athenian power under and after the Pisistratidae (Bury, i. 213).

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