4. The ACTE (as the northern coast of Argolis, over against Attica, was called)(299) was reduced, according to the account of Ephorus, by Deiphontes and Agæus.(300) The former of these, who was called a descendant of Ctesippus, and son-in-law of Temenus, and whose fortunes afforded materials for the tragic poets, made himself master of the town of EPIDAURUS, and dislodged the Ionians from thence: these latter, under the command of their king Pityreus, crossed over to Attica, whence the king’s son Procles went subsequently, at the general Ionic migration, to Samos.(301) Of the Dorians of Epidaurus, however, a part under the conduct of Triacon withdrew to ÆGINA,(302) in which place Hellenes of Thessaly had formerly ruled, and united the island and mother-state into one commonwealth, with equal rights, and the same magistrates. Now since besides Epidaurus, TRŒZEN alone belonged to the Actè, and since both Agæus and Deiphontes are mentioned as the Dorian colonisers of this coast, it was probably this Agæus who brought Trœzen under the rule of the Dorians.(303) In this city, too, he must have encountered some Ionians; since both the mythical genealogies and religious rites of the ancient Trœzen attest a close connexion between its earlier inhabitants and the Athenians.(304) For Trœzen even shared with the Ionic cities in the peculiar worship of the Apaturian Athene, as the goddess of _phratriæ_ and _gentes_;(305) as also in that of Poseidon and his son Theseus. 5. The accounts already given show that Sicyon, Phlius, Cleonæ, Epidaurus, Trœzen, and Ægina received their share of Doric inhabitants either mediately or immediately from Argos. We can only regret the want of any accurate accounts respecting Mycenæ and Tiryns; the conquest of which cities must have been most difficult; but, when accomplished, decisive for the sovereignty of the Dorians. Pindar(306) considers the expulsion of the Achæan Danai from the gulf of Argos, and from Mycenæ, as identical with the expedition of the Heraclidæ; and Strabo states that the Argives united Mycenæ with themselves.(307) Nevertheless we find that in the Persian war Mycenæ and Tiryns were still independent states, and it admits of a doubt whether they had previously belonged for any length of time to Argos. That some ancient inhabitants at least still maintained themselves in the mountains above Argos, is shown by the instance of the Orneatæ. The inhabitants of Orneæ, a town on the mountainous frontier of Mantinea, having long been hostile to the Dorians, and at war with the Sicyonians,(308) were at length overpowered by Argos, and degraded to the state of periœci.(309) Now, since it is more probable that such a proceeding took place against the people of a different race, than against a colony of Argos, and also as there is nowhere any mention of a Doric settlement at Orneæ, it is evident that the inhabitants of Orneæ had up to that time been either Achæans or Arcadians.