Kitap 8
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Its ancient name was Oenone, which is the name of two of the demi in Attica, one near Eleuthera; to inhabit the plains close to Oenone, (Oenoe,) and Eleutherae; and another, one of the cities of the Tetrapolis near Marathon, to which the proverb is applied, Oenone (Oenoe?) and its torrent. Its inhabitants were in succession Argives, Cretans, Epidauri ans, and Dorians. At last the Athenians divided the island by lot among settlers of their own. The Lacedaemonians, however, deprived the Athenians of it, and restored it to the ancient inhabitants.
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The Aeginetae sent out colonists to CydoniaThis colony must have been posterior to that of the Samians, the first founders of Cydonia. in Crete, and to the Ombrici. According to Ephorus, silver was first struck as money by Pheidon. The island became a mart, the inhabitants, on account of the fertility of its soil, employing themselves at sea as traders; whence goods of a small kind had the name of Aegina wares.
