Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.; History, Ancient
90. These men were thus equipped; and the Cyprians furnished a hundred
and fifty ships, being themselves equipped as follows,--their kings had
their heads wound round with fillets, 84 and the rest had tunics, 85
but in other respects they were like the Hellenes. Among these there
are various races as follows,--some of them are from Salamis and Athens,
others from Arcadia, others from Kythnos, others again from Phenicia and
others from Ethiopia, as the Cyprians themselves report.
91. The Kilikians furnished a hundred ships; and these again had about
their heads native helmets, and for shields they carried targets made of
raw ox-hide: they wore tunics 86 of wool and each man had two javelins
and a sword, this last being made very like the Egyptian knives. These
in old time were called Hypachaians, and they got their later name from
Kilix the son of Agenor, a Phenician. The Pamphylians furnished thirty
ships and were equipped in Hellenic arms. These Pamphylians are of those
who were dispersed from Troy together with Amphilochos and Calchas.
92. The Lykians furnished fifty ships; and they were wearers of corslets
and greaves, and had bows of cornel-wood and arrows of reeds without
feathers and javelins and a goat-skin hanging over their shoulders, and
about their heads felt caps wreathed round with feathers; also they had
daggers and falchions. 87 The Lykians were formerly called Termilai,
being originally of Crete, and they got their later name from Lycos the
son of Pandion, an Athenian.
93. The Dorians of Asia furnished thirty ships; and these had Hellenic
arms and were originally from the Peloponnese. The Carians supplied
seventy ships; and they were equipped in other respects like Hellenes
but they had also falchions and daggers. What was the former name of
these has been told in the first part of the history. 88
94. The Ionians furnished a hundred ships, and were equipped
like Hellenes. Now the Ionians, so long time as they dwelt in the
Peloponnese, in the land which is now called Achaia, and before the
time when Danaos and Xuthos came to the Peloponnese, were called, as the
Hellenes report, Pelasgians of the Coast-land, 89 and then Ionians after
Ion the son of Xuthos.
95. The islanders furnished seventeen ships, and were armed like
Hellenes, this also being a Pelasgian race, though afterwards it came to
be called Ionian by the same rule as the Ionians of the twelve cities,
who came from Athens. The Aiolians supplied sixty ships; and these were
equipped like Hellenes and used to be called Pelasgians in the old time,
as the Hellenes report. The Hellespontians, excepting those of Abydos
(for the men of Abydos had been appointed by the king to stay in their
place and be guards of the bridges), the rest, I say, of those who
served in the expedition from the Pontus furnished a hundred ships,
and were equipped like Hellenes: these are colonists of the Ionians and
Dorians.
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