Histories

The Panionion [27.1167,37.6833] (Perseus) Panionion is a sacred ground in Mykale [26.8667,38.1] (Perseus)Mykale, facing north; it was set apart for Poseidon of Helicon by the joint will of the Ionians. Mykale [26.8667,38.1] (Perseus)Mykale is a western promontory of the mainland opposite Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos; the Ionians used to assemble there from their cities and keep the festival to which they gave the name of Panionia.

Not only the Ionian festivals, but all those of all the Greeks alike, end in the same letter, just as do the names of the Persians.

Those are the Ionian cities, and these are the Aeolian: Kyme [24.1167,38.6333] (Perseus)Cyme (called “Phriconian”),[*](Perhaps so called from a mountain in Aeolis (region (general)), Turkey, AsiaAeolis, Phricion, near which the Aeolians had been settled before their migration to Asia (continent)Asia.) Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notium (deserted settlement), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, AsiaNotion, Aegiroessa, Pitane [26.9333,38.9333] (Perseus)Pitane, Aegaeae, Mirina [25.66,39.866] (inhabited place), Lemnos, Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, EuropeMyrina, Gryneia.[*](These places lie between Smyrna [27.1667,38.4167] (Perseus)Smyrna and Bergama [27.166,39.133] (inhabited place), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, AsiaPergamum, on or near the coast. But Aegiroessa has not been exactly identified.) These are the ancient Aeolian cities, eleven in number; but one of them, Smyrna [27.1667,38.4167] (Perseus)Smyrna, was taken away by the Ionians; for these too were once twelve, on the mainland.