History of the Peloponnesian War

That of the Athenians comprehended the Chians, Lesbians, Plataeans, the Messenians at Naupactus, the greater part of the Acarnanians, the Corcyreans, the Zacynthians: also some other states which were tributary amongst the following nations; as the maritime parts of Caria, and Doris adjacent to it, Ionia, the Hellespont, the Greek towns Thrace-ward; the islands, which were situated between the Peloponnese and Crete, towards the east, [*]( I am inclined to think that αἱ ἂλλαι κυκλάδες may signify the more westerly part of the group, in opposition to πρὸς ἥλιον ἀνίσχουσα. Otherwise Bloomfield's must be the only correct version; namely, all the Cyclades, etc. The fact of both Melos and Thera being amongst the most southerly of all the islands seems entirely to overthrow Göller's interpretation of the passage, which would refer αἱ ἄλλαι κυκλάδες to the islands east of Greece Proper, in contradistinction to the Peloponnese and Crete.) and all the rest of the Cyclades except Melos and Thera.

Of these, the Chians, Lesbians, and Corcyraeans furnished a naval force, the rest of them infantry and money.

Such was the confederacy on each side, and their resources for the war.