ABSTRACT
I. The Return of the Heraclidæ occasioned consequences of which the most important were the least immediate. Whenever the Dorians forced a settlement,
they dislodged such of the previous inhabitants as refused to succumb. Driven elsewhere to seek a
home, the exiles found it often in yet fairer climes, and along more fertile soils. The example of these involuntary migrators became imitated wherever discontent prevailed or population was redundant: and hence, as I have already recorded, first arose those numerous colonies, which along the Asiatic shores, in the Grecian isles, on the plains of Italy, and even in Libya and in Egypt were destined to give, as it were, a second youth to the parent states.
