Histories

For long ago, in the games in honor of Triopian Apollo, they offered certain bronze tripods to the victors; and those who won these were not to carry them away from the temple but dedicate them there to the god.

Now when a man of Bodrum [27.466,37.5] (inhabited place), Mugla Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Halicarnassus called Agasicles won, he disregarded this law, and, carrying the tripod away, nailed it to the wall of his own house. For this offense the five cities—Lindos [28.1083,36.0833] (Perseus)Lindus, Trianda [28.166,36.416] (inhabited place), Rhodes, Sporades, Aegean Islands, Greece, EuropeIalysus, Camirus, Kos City [27.3,36.8917] (Perseus)Cos, and Cnidus Nova [27.366,36.666] (deserted settlement), Mugla Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, AsiaCnidus—forbade the sixth city—Bodrum [27.466,37.5] (inhabited place), Mugla Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Halicarnassus—to share in the use of the temple. Such was the penalty imposed on the Halicarnassians.

As for the Ionians, the reason why they made twelve cities and would admit no more was in my judgment this: there were twelve divisions of them when they dwelt in the Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, EuropePeloponnese, just as there are twelve divisions of the Achaeans who drove the Ionians out—Pellene [22.5583,38.05] (Perseus)Pellene nearest to Sikyon [22.725,37.9833] (Perseus)Sicyon; then Aegira [22.3833,38.1333] (Perseus)Aegira and Aegae [22.05,40.8] (Perseus)Aegae, where is the never-failing river Crathis, from which the river in Italy [12.833,42.833] (nation), Europe Italy took its name; Bura [22.2167,38.15] (Perseus)Bura and Helike [22.1167,38.2167] (Perseus)Helice, where the Ionians fled when they were worsted in battle by the Achaeans; Aegion; Rhype; Patrai [21.75,38.2333] (Perseus)Patrae; Phareae; and Olenus [21.55,38.15] (Perseus) Olenus, where is the great river Pirus; Dyme [21.5833,38.1] (Perseus) Dyme and Tritaeae, the only inland city of all these—these were the twelve divisions of the Ionians, as they are now of the Achaeans.