( or Νείλεος),
the younger son of Codrus, disputed the right of his elder brother Medon to the crown on
account of his lameness, and when the Delphic oracle declared in favour of Medon, he placed
himself at the head of the colonists who migrated to Ionia, and himself founded Miletus. His
son Aepytus headed the colonists who settled in Priene. Another son headed a body of settlers
who reinforced the inhabitants of Iasus, after they had lost a great number of their citizens
in a war with the Carians. (Hdt. 9.97; Paus.
7.2.1, who in the old edition calls him Neileus; Plb.
16.12; Suidas, s. v.Ἰωνία; Strab. xiv.
p.633.)