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The Cilicians are not ‘within the Halys’ at all. The larger part of these conquests were the work of Alyattes; but H. uses the aorist participle with ἔχω, a construction which implies not only the act, but also the state resulting from the act.

The last four lines are probably a gloss that has crept into the text (Stein), for

(1) The mention of the Lydians as ‘subdued’ is absurd.

(2) H. omits here tribes he knows elsewhere, e. g. the Caunii (c. 171), and inserts the Θυνοί, whom he knows nothing of in vii. 75.

(3) The list includes the Χάλυβες, who were always placed east of the Halys till Ephorus, probably identifying them with the Ἁλίζωνοι of the Catalogue (Il. ii. 856-7), brought them to the west of it. Strabo 678 (cf. also 552) refutes this error, but makes no mention of a similar mistake in H.

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