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[6] Δωριεῖς δ᾽ εἰσὶν ὥσπερ καὶ Ἁλικαρνασεῖς καὶ Κνίδιοι καὶ Κῷοι. οἱ γὰρ Δωριεῖς οἱ τὰ Μέγαρα κτίσαντες μετὰ τὴν Κόδρου τελευτὴν οἱ μὲν ἔμειναν αὐτόθι, οἱ δὲ σὺν Ἀλθαιμένει τῷ Ἀργείῳ τῆς εἰς Κρήτην ἀποικίας ἐκοινώνησαν, οἱ δ᾽ εἰς τὴν Ῥόδον καὶ τὰς λεχθείσας ἀρτίως πόλεις ἐμερίσθησαν. ταῦτα δὲ νεώτερα τῶν ὑφ᾽ Ὁμήρου λεγομένων ἐστί: Κνίδος μὲν γὰρ καὶ Ἁλικαρνασὸς οὐδ᾽ ἦν πω, Ῥόδος δ᾽ ἦν καὶ Κῶς, ἀλλ᾽ ᾠκεῖτο ὑφ᾽ Ἡρακλειδῶν. Τληπόλεμος μὲν οὖν ἀνδρωθεὶς “ αὐτίκα πατρὸς ἑοῖο φίλον μήτρωα κατέκτα
ἤδη γηράσκοντα, Λικύμνιον.
αἶψα δὲ νῆας ἔπηξε, πολὺν δ᾽ ὅγε λαὸν ἀγείρας
βῆ φεύγων.
”1 εἶτά φησιν “ εἰς Ῥόδον ἷξεν ἀλώμενος,
τριχθὰ δὲ ᾤκηθεν καταφυλαδόν.
” καὶ τὰς πόλεις ὀνομάζει τὰς τότε “ Λίνδον Ἰηλυσόν τε καὶ ἀργινόεντα Κάμειρον,
”2 τῆς Ῥοδίων πόλεως οὔπω συνῳκισμένης. οὐδαμοῦ δὴ ἐνταῦθα Δωριέας ὀνομάζει, ἀλλ᾽ εἰ ἄρα Αἰολέας ἐμφαίνει καὶ Βοιωτούς, εἴπερ [p. 912] ἐκεῖ ἡ κατοικία τοῦ Ἡρακλέους καὶ τοῦ Λικυμνίου: εἰ δ᾽ ὥσπερ καὶ ἄλλοι φασίν, ἐξ Ἄργους καὶ Τίρυνθος ἀπῆρεν ὁ Τληπόλεμος, οὐδ᾽ οὕτω Δωρικὴ γίνεται ἡ ἐκεῖθεν ἀποικία: πρὸ γὰρ τῆς Ἡρακλειδῶν καθόδου γεγένηται. καὶ τῶν Κῴων δὲ “ Φείδιππός τε καὶ Ἄντιφος ἡγησάσθην,
Θεσσαλοῦ υἷε δύω Ἡρακλείδαο ἄνακτος,
”3 καὶ οὗτοι τὸ Αἰολικὸν μᾶλλον ἢ τὸ Δωρικὸν γένος ἐμφαίνοντες.
Strabo. ed. A. Meineke, Geographica. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.
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- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, RHODES (including Ialysos, Kameiros, Lindos, Vroulia, the city of Rhodes, Mt. Atabyrion) Dodecanese, Greece.
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- Apollodorus, Library, Apollod. 2.8
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