Histories

The Dorians of Asia (continent)Asia furnished thirty ships; their armor was Greek; they are of Peloponnesian descent. The Carians furnished seventy ships; they had scimitars and daggers, but the rest of their equipment was Greek. I have said in the beginning of my history[*](In Hdt. 1.171.) what they were formerly called.

The Ionians furnished a hundred ships; their equipment was like the Greek. These Ionians, as long as they were in the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese, dwelt in what is now called +Achaea [21.75,38.25] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Achaia, and before Danaus and Xuthus came to the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese, as the Greeks say, they were called Aegialian Pelasgians.[*](Herodotus generally uses the name “Pelasgian” for the oldest known population of Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeGreece: cp. Hdt. 1.146; Hdt. 2.171.) They were named Ionians after Ion the son of Xuthus.

The islanders provided seventeen ships and were armed like Greeks; they were also of Pelasgian stock, which was later called Ionian for the same reason as were the Ionians of the twelve cities,[*](For the twelve cities, see Hdt. 1.142.) who came from Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens. The Aeolians furnished sixty ships and were equipped like Greeks; formerly they were called Pelasgian, as the Greek story goes.

Of the people of the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont, the people of Abydus [26.416,40.2] (deserted settlement), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Abydos had been charged by the king to remain at home and guard the bridges; the rest of the people from +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Pontus who came with the army furnished a hundred ships and were equipped like Greeks. They were settlers from the Ionians and Dorians.

Persians and Medes and Sacae served as soldiers on all the ships. The most seaworthy ships were furnished by the Phoenicians, and among them by the Sidonians. All of these, as with those who were marshalled in the infantry, each had their native leaders, whose names I do not record, since it is not necessary for the purpose of my history.