Histories

They do not all have the same speech but four different dialects. Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus lies farthest south among them, and next to it come Myous (deserted settlement), Aydin Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, AsiaMyus and Priene [27.2833,37.6333] (Perseus) Priene; these are settlements in Caria [28,37.5] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus [27.316,37.916] (deserted settlement), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Ephesus, Colophon [27.1333,38.1167] (Perseus)Colophon, Lebedos, Teos [26.8,38.1667] (Perseus)Teos, Klazomenai [26.7833,38.3167] (Perseus)Clazomenae, Foca [26.75,38.666] (inhabited place), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, AsiaPhocaea, all of them in Lydia [27.516,38.683] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Lydia,

have a language in common which is wholly different from the speech of the three former cities. There are yet three Ionian cities, two of them situated on the islands of Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos and Chios [26,38.366] (island), Khios, Aegean Islands, Greece, EuropeChios, and one, Erythrae, on the mainland; the Chians and Erythraeans speak alike, but the Samians have a language which is their own and no one else's. It is thus seen that there are four modes of speech.

Among these Ionians, the Milesians were safe from the danger (for they had made a treaty), and the islanders among them had nothing to fear: for the Phoenicians were not yet subjects of the Persians, nor were the Persians themselves mariners.