“to inhabit the plains close to Œnone, (Œnoe,) and Eleutheræ;”
and another, one of the cities of the Tetrapolis near Marathon, to which the proverb is applied,
“Œnone (Œnoe?) and its torrent.”
Its inhabitants were in succession Argives, Cretans, Epidaurians, and Dorians. At last the Athenians divided the island by lot among settlers of their own. The Lacedæmonians, however, deprived the Athenians of it, and restored it to the ancient inhabitants.
The Æginetæ sent out colonists to Cydonia[207] in Crete, and to the Ombrici. According to Ephorus, silver was first struck as money by Pheidon. The island became a mart, the inhabitants, on account of the fertility of its soil, employing themselves at sea as traders; whence goods of a small kind had the name of “Ægina wares.”
17. The poet frequently speaks of places in succession as they are situated;
“they who inhabited Hyria, and Aulis;”[208]
“and they who occupied Argos, and Tiryns,
Hermione, and Asine,