46 PEOPLE OF CAUNUS. 



tory, will account for its use in Caria, viz., 

 that the conquerors became the settlers there 

 also, for Herodotus distinctly says that the 

 Caunians imitated in a great measure the 

 Xanthians in defending Caunus against the 

 Persians, which was, therefore, like Xanthus, left 

 in the hands of the conquerors, a depopulated 

 city. Both the desolated localities it seems most 

 natural would have been repeopled by the Per- 

 sians themselves. Whether this conjecture 

 be allowed or not, it is an important fact that 

 Caunus is the only city out of Lycia in which 

 the so called Lycian rock-tombs are found. 

 There they are very numerous, and undoubtedly 

 originated with the same people who introduced 

 the language. And it is important to notice 

 that Herodotus, when speaking of the inhabitants 

 of Caunus, expresses his difficulty with respect 

 to the origin of their language, and " thinks 

 that the Carians have assimilated their language 

 with the Caunians. (b. i. c. 172.) 



The river Xanthus, it appears from some an- 

 cient authors, at one time bore the name of 

 Sirbe. Dr. Cramer, page 249, quotes two autho- 

 rities, Strabo and Stephanus Byzantinus. Sir 

 C. Fellows gives an extract from Bochart's 



