from them the name of Pelasgia. They expelled the Minyans from Lemnos,[69] which afterwards, through fear of Darius, their king ceded to the Athenians,[70] and held Imbros[71] and Samothrace[72] in the north; Scyros, too, was originally named Pelasgia.[73] Andros was peopled by one[74] of their colonies, and Delos, as we have already seen, held their bones until they were cast forth by the Athenians. But it is unnecessary to enumerate each separate point, since we know generally that all the Ægæan isles were anciently in their possession,[75] and that even the great island of Crete formed, in remote ages, a portion of their empire. Here under the names of Curetes, Corybantes, Telchines and Dactyli,[76] they flourished in the mythical times, and were the reputed preservers and nurses of the infant Zeus, a god pre-eminently Pelasgian, so that wherever his worship was found I regard it as a proof that the Pelasgi had settled there. Footnote 57: Paus. vii. 2. 8. Steph. Byzant. _v._ Ἀγύλλα, p. 30, d. Ed. Berkel. Footnote 58: Athen. xv. 12. Thirl. Hist. of Greece, i. 43. Sch. Apoll. Rhod. i. 14. Footnote 59: Pliny, ii. 31. Steph. de Urb. _v._ Μίλετ. p. 559. b. c. Eustath. in Dion. Perieg. 825. 456. Sch. Apoll. Rhod. i. 186. Footnote 60: Il. φ. 86. Cf. Sch. ad κ. 429. Footnote 61: A glimpse of this fact is obtained from a tradition preserved by Hecatæos:—Τοὺς δὲ Λέλεγας τινὲς μὲν τοὺς αὐτοὺς Καρσὶν εἰκὰζουσιν. Strab. vii. 7. p. 114. From other authorities we learn that the Carians were regarded as Pelasgians.—Habitator incertæ originis. Alii indigenas, sunt qui Pelasgos, quidam Cretas existimant. Pomp. Mela, i. 16.—See likewise Barnes ad Eurip. Heracl. 317. But the strongest testimony is that of Herodotus, i. 171. Footnote 62: Strabo, xiv. 2. p. 208. Thucyd. i. 8. Footnote 63: Strabo, viii. 6. p. 204. Footnote 64: Strab. ap. Palmer. Gr. Ant. i. 10, p. 65. Serv. ad Æn. viii. 725. We again find these two people united at Troy; but not mentioned in the catalogue, because their leader had fallen and there were few of them left to be ranged under Hector. Their leaders were Helicon and his sons. Their capital city “Thebes with lofty gates” had been sacked by Achilles. Strab. xiii. 3. p. 141. Footnote 65: Travels of Ali Bey. Footnote 66: Phot. Bib. 141. a. Footnote 67: According, however, to a tradition preserved by Ephoros, the city of Karides, in this island, was founded by those who escaped with Macar from the Deluge of Deucalion. Athen. iii. 66. Footnote 68: Plin. v. 39. Footnote 69: Paus. vii. 22. Footnote 70: Suid. _v._ Ἑρμώνιος χάρις. t. i. p. 1044. Footnote 71: Herm. Pol. Antiq. p. 13. Herod. vi. 138, 140. v. 26. Footnote 72: Herod. ii. 51. Footnote 73: Thucyd. i. 98. cum not. Wass. Footnote 74: Phot. Bib. 139. a. Footnote 75: Phot. Bib. 141. a. Both the island of Lesbos, and its city Himera were called Pelasgia. Pliny, v. 39. Footnote 76: