Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

Such was their armor. The Cyprians furnished a hundred and fifty ships; for their equipment, their princes wore turbans wrapped around their heads, and the people wore tunics, but in all else they were like the Greeks. These are their tribes:[*](That is, the entire population contains everywhere these component parts; they are not locally separate.) some are from Salamis [33.9,35.166] (deserted settlement), Famagusta, Cyprus, AsiaSalamis and Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens, some from +Arcadia [22.25,37.583] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Arcadia, some from Cythnus, some from Phoenice, and some from Ethiopia [39,8] (nation), AfricaEthiopia, as the Cyprians themselves say.