Herodotus, The Histories, Book 1, chapter 149

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Those are the Ionian cities, and these are the Aeolian: Cyme (called “Phriconian”),¹ Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Gryneia.² These are the ancient Aeolian cities, eleven in number; but one of them, Smyrna, was taken away by the Ionians; for these too were once twelve, on the mainland. [2] These Aeolians had settled where the land was better than the Ionian territory, but the climate was not so good.

1 Perhaps so called from a mountain in Aeolis, Phricion, near which the Aeolians had been settled before their migration to Asia.

2 These places lie between Smyrna and Pergamum, on or near the coast. But Aegiroessa has not been exactly identified.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, PITANE (Candarli) Turkey.
- Harper's, Temnus
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), AMPHIC´TYONES
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), ORA´CULUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), AEGAE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), AEGIROESSA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), AE´OLIS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CILLA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ELAEA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), GRYNIUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), IO´NIA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), LARISSA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MYRI´NA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), NEONTEICHOS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PITANE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), TEMNUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), TENEDOS
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- Strabo, Geography, Strab. 14.1
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- LSJ, Λάρι_σα
- LSJ, Σμύρνα
- LSJ, ἥκω
- LSJ, κτίζω
- LSJ, παραλύω

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