Histories

Herodotus

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

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.

These Aeolians had settled where the land was better than the Ionian territory, but the climate was not so good.