Histories

just as the Dorians of what is now the country of the “Five Cities”—formerly the country of the “Six Cities”—forbid admitting any of the neighboring Dorians to the Triopian temple, and even barred from using it those of their own group who had broken the temple law.

For long ago, in the games in honor of Triopian Apollo, they offered certain bronze tripods to the victors; and those who won these were not to carry them away from the temple but dedicate them there to the god.

Now when a man of Bodrum [27.466,37.5] (inhabited place), Mugla Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Halicarnassus called Agasicles won, he disregarded this law, and, carrying the tripod away, nailed it to the wall of his own house. For this offense the five cities—Lindos [28.1083,36.0833] (Perseus)Lindus, Trianda [28.166,36.416] (inhabited place), Rhodes, Sporades, Aegean Islands, Greece, EuropeIalysus, Camirus, Kos City [27.3,36.8917] (Perseus)Cos, and Cnidus Nova [27.366,36.666] (deserted settlement), Mugla Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, AsiaCnidus—forbade the sixth city—Bodrum [27.466,37.5] (inhabited place), Mugla Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Halicarnassus—to share in the use of the temple. Such was the penalty imposed on the Halicarnassians.