Book 14
2.6
But these migrations are more recent than the events related by Homer. For Cnidus and Halicarnasus were not then in existence. Rhodes and Cos existed, but were inhabited by Heracleidae. Tlepolemus, when he attained manhood, slew the maternal uncle of his father, the aged Licymnius. He immediately built ships, and, collecting a large body of people, fled away with them:Il. ii. 662. and adds afterwards— after many sufferings on the voyage, he came to Rhodes; they settled there according to their tribes, in three bodies: and mentions by name the cities then existingIl. ii. 656.— Lindus, Ialysus, and the white Cameirus, the city of the Rhodians not being yet founded.
2.6
Homer does not here mention Dorians by name, but means Aeolians and Boeotians, since Hercules and Licymnius lived in Boeotia. If however, as others relate, Tlepolemus set out from Argos and Tiryns, even so the colony would not be Dorian, for it was settled before the return of the Heracleidae.
2.6
And of the Coans also Homer says— their leaders were Pheidippus and Antiphus, two sons of Thessalus the King, an Heracleid;Il. ii. 678. and these names designate rather an Aeolian than a Dorian origin.
2.7
Rhodes was formerly called Ophiussa and Stadia, then Telchinis, from the Telchines, who inhabited the island.Formerly, says Pliny, it was called Ophiussa, Asteria, Aethraea, Trinacria, Corymbia, Poeeessa, Atabyria, from a king of that name; then Macaria and Oloëssa. B. v. 31. To these names may be added Lindus and Pelagia. Meineke, however, suspects the name Stadia in this passage to be a corruption for Asteria.
