Caunians
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ill-counselling Caunians
in the texts
Orations
Inhabitants of Caunus, described dismissively as ill-counseled, contrasted with Rhodes.
For this too is no small thing, that the givers are not Calymnians or these ill-counselling Caunians.
For what noble man has arisen among the Caunians?
And indeed, if someone should say you are like Caunians or Myndians, you will be greatly angered and consider that he blasphemes against the city;
The Histories
A people of Asia Minor near the Carians, distinguished by their own customs including communal age-grouped feasts and a ritual expulsion of foreign deities.
I think the Caunians are aborigines of the soil, but they say that they came from Crete.
but afterwards, when they were inclined otherwise, and wanted to worship only the gods of their fathers, all Caunian men of full age put on their armor and went together as far as the boundaries of Calynda, striking the air with their spears and saying that they were casting out the alien gods.
So Harpagus gained Xanthus, and Caunus too in a somewhat similar manner, the Caunians following for the most part the example of the Lycians.