which it is plain that the story O. Miiller (History of the Dorians,

was adduced hy Andr6n with a h. i. c. 1. § 9) accepts the story as

special explanatory reference to suhstantially true, putting aside

the passage in the Odyssey (xy. the name Ddrus, and ey en regards

175). it as certain that Minos of Kndssus

The age of Andrdn, one of the was a Dorian: but the evidence
authors of Atthides, is not pre- with which he supports this con-
cisely ascertainable, but he can elusion appears to me loose and
hardly be put earlier than 300 B.C. ; fanciful,
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30 HISTOBY OF GREECE. Part I

Temenus, was induced to expatriate by a family quarrel,
and conducted a body of Dorian colonists from Argos first
to Krete, where some of them remained; but the greater
number accompanied him to Rhodes, in which island, after
expelling the Karian possessors, he founded the three cities
of Lindus, lalysus, and Kamairus.i

It is proper here to add, that the legend of the Bhodian
archaeologists respecting their (Ekist Althsemenes, who was
worshipped in the island with heroic honours, was something
totally diflFerent from the preceding. Althaemenes was a
Elretan, son of the king Katreus, and grandson of Minos.
