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of unusual size. They were armed with spears suited for a sea-fight,
and with huge pole-axes. The greater part of them wore breastplates;
and all had long cutlasses.
(iii.) The Cyprians furnished a hundred and fifty ships, and
were equipped in the following fashion. Their kings had turbans
bound about their heads, while the people wore tunics; in other
respects they were clad like the Greeks. They are of various races;
some are sprung from Athens and Salamis, some from Arcadia, some
from Cythnus, some from Phoenicia, and a portion, according to their
own account, from Ethiopia.
(iv.) The Cilicians furnished a hundred ships. The crews wore upon
their heads the helmet of their country, and carried instead of
shields light targes made of raw hide; they were clad in woollen
tunics, and were each armed with two javelins, and a sword closely
resembling the cutlass of the Egyptians. This people bore anciently
the name of Hypachaeans, but took their present title from Cilix,
the son of Agenor, a Phoenician.
(v.) The Pamphylians furnished thirty ships, the crews of which
were armed exactly as the Greeks. This nation is descended from
those who on the return from Troy were dispersed with Amphilochus
and Calchas.
(vi.) The Lycians furnished fifty ships. Their crews wore
greaves and breastplates, while for arms they had bows of cornel wood,
reed arrows without feathers, and javelins. Their outer garment was
the skin of a goat, which hung from their shoulders; their headdress a
hat encircled with plumes; and besides their other weapons they
carried daggers and falchions. This people came from Crete, and were
once called Termilae; they got the name which they now bear from
Lycus, the son of Pandion, an Athenian.
(vii.) The Dorians of Asia furnished thirty ships. They were armed
in the Grecian fashion, inasmuch as their forefathers came from the
Peloponnese.
(viii.) The Carians furnished seventy ships, and were equipped
like the Greeks, but carried, in addition, falchions and daggers. What
name the Carians bore anciently was declared in the first part of this
History.
(ix.) The Ionians furnished a hundred ships, and were armed like
the Greeks. Now these Ionians, during the time that they dwelt in
the Peloponnese and inhabited the land now called Achaea (which was
before the arrival of Danaus and Xuthus in the Peloponnese), were
called, according to the Greek account, Aegialean Pelasgi, or "Pelasgi
of the Sea-shore"; but afterwards, from Ion the son of Xuthus, they
were called Ionians.
The Islanders furnished seventeen ships, and wore arms like the
Greeks. They too were a Pelasgian race, who in later times took the,
name of Ionians for the same reason me reason as those who inhabited
the twelve cities founded from Athens.
The Aeolians furnished sixty ships, and were equipped in the
Grecian fashion. They too were anciently called Pelasgians, as the
Greeks declare.
The Hellespontians from the Pontus, who are colonists of the
Ionians and Dorians, furnished a hundred ships, the crews of which
wore the Grecian armour. This did not include the Abydenians, who
stayed in their own country, because the king had assigned them the
special duty of guarding the bridges.
On board of every ship was a band of soldiers, Persians, Medes, or
Sacans. The Phoenician ships were the best sailers in the fleet, and
the Sidonian the best among the Phoenicians. The contingent of each
nation, whether to the fleet or to the land army, had at its head a
native leader; but the names of these leaders I shall not mention,
as it is not necessary for the course of my History. For the leaders
of some nations were not worthy to have their names recorded; and
besides, there were in each nation as many leaders as there were
cities. And it was not really as commanders that they accompanied