Book 12
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The Carians, who were formerly islanders, and Leleges, it is said, settled on the continent with the assistance of the Cretans. They built Miletus, of which the founder was Sarpedon from Miletus in Crete. They settled the colony of Termilmae in the present Lycia, but, according to Herodotus,Herod. i. 173; vii. 92. these people were a colony from Crete under the conduct of Sarpedon, brother of Minos and Rhadamanthus, who gave the name of Termilae to the people formerly called Milyae, and still more anciently Solymi; when, however, Lycus the son of Pandion arrived, he called them Lycii after his own name. This account shows that the Solymi and Lycians were the same people, but the poet distinguishes them. He represents Bellerophon setting out from Lycia, and fighting with the renowned Solymi.Il. vi. 184.Il. vi. 184. He says Peisander (Isander?), his son, Mars slew when fighting with the Solymi,Il. vi. 204.Il. vi. 204. and speaks of Sarpedon as a native of Lycia.Il. vi. 199.
