Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . *? I 1 IS. FOUNDATION OF LI PARA. 55 but it was the last independent commonwealth settledfrom another independent commonwealth. It wasnot however the last attempt at such after the foundation of Akragas, about 580 ,a body of settlers from Knidos and Rhodes, underthe Knidian Pentathlos, strove to make a settlementin the heart of the Phoenician territory, near Lilybaionin the extreme west of Sicily. The new comers founda war going on between the Greeks of Selinous andthe Elymians of Scgesta :—v^^e shall hear of severalmore such wars. Th

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Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . *? I 1 IS. FOUNDATION OF LI PARA. 55 but it was the last independent commonwealth settledfrom another independent commonwealth. It wasnot however the last attempt at such after the foundation of Akragas, about 580 ,a body of settlers from Knidos and Rhodes, underthe Knidian Pentathlos, strove to make a settlementin the heart of the Phoenician territory, near Lilybaionin the extreme west of Sicily. The new comers founda war going on between the Greeks of Selinous andthe Elymians of Scgesta :—v^^e shall hear of severalmore such wars. The men of Segesta had Phoenicianallies, while the new comers, Greeks and Dorians,naturally gave help to the men of Selinous, also Greeksand Doiians. But the Greeks were defeated, andPentathlos was killed. His followers then sailed awayround the north-west corner of Sicily to the isles ofAiolos ; there they planted a colony on the largest ofthem, the isle of Lipara, which has ever since been aninhabited town. The new city of Lipara looked toKnido

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