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[283] Σολύμων. Strabo places the Solymi on the heights of the Taurus chain in Lycia and Pisidia (1. 12. 10). Homer does not seem, like Herodotus (1. 173), to identify the Solymi with the Lycians: on the contrary, we should gather from Il.6. 168-186 that the two peoples were hostile to one another. Possibly a colony from Crete settled in the district Milyas, driving back the original inhabitants into mountain fastnesses.

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