Crossword-Solution: KYM 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

When they had once firmly planted themselves in the ports along the Asianic littoral--at Kymê, at Phocæ, at Smyrna, at Clazomenæ, at Colophon, at Ephesus, at Magnesia, at Miletus--the Æolians and the Ionians lost no time in reaping the advantages which this position, at the western extremities of the great high-road through Asia Minor, secured to them.

They gave as a legacy to Phrygia one of their alphabets, that of Kymê, which soon banished the old Hittite syllabary from the monuments, and they borrowed in exchange Phrygian customs, musical instruments, traditions, and religious orgies.

The towns of the Hellespont and of Ćolia succumbed one after another; Kymę and Clazomenć next opened their gates; the Carians were twice beaten, once near the White Columns, and again near Labranda, and their victory at Pedasos suspended merely for an instant the progress of the Persian arms, so that towards the close of 497 the struggle was almost entirely concentrated round Miletus.

Xerxes gave the order to advance in the autumn of 481, crossed the Halys and took up his quarters at Sardes, while his fleet prepared to winter in the neighbouring ports of Phocć and Kymę.* * Diodorus, who probably follows Ephorus, is the only writer who informs us of the place where the fleet was assembled.

The first is called _Scriptura coelestis_ (the writing of heaven); the next, [Hebrew: ML'KYM] or [Hebrew: MLKYM], that is, of angels or kings (_angelorum sive regum_); and the third the writing of the crossing of the flood."[50] There {50} are extant also, drawings of these letters preserved by Hern.