Of these the greatest and most famous and most visited precinct is that which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of +Khios [26.116,38.383] (inhabited place), Chios, Khios, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Chios, +Teos [26.8,38.1667] (Perseus) Teos, +Foca [26.75,38.666] (inhabited place), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Phocaea, and Klazomenai [26.7833,38.3167] (Perseus)Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of +Rhodes [28.216,36.433] (inhabited place), Rhodes, Sporades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Rhodes, +Cnidus Nova [27.366,36.666] (deserted settlement), Mugla Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Cnidus, Bodrum [27.466,37.5] (inhabited place), Mugla Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene [26.55,39.1] (Perseus) Mytilene.

It is to these that the precinct belongs, and these are the cities that furnish overseers of the trading port; if any other cities advance claims, they claim what does not belong to them. The Aeginetans made a precinct of their own, sacred to Zeus; and so did the Samians for Hera and the Milesians for Apollo.