me 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.

96. In all the ships there served as fighting-men Persians, Medes, or
Sacans;: and of the ships, those which sailed best were furnished by the
Phenicians, and of the Phenicians the best by the men of Sidon. Over all
these men and also over those of them who were appointed to serve in the
land-army, there were for each tribe native chieftains, of whom, since I
am not compelled by the course of the inquiry, I make no mention by the
way; for in the first place the chieftains of each separate nation were
not persons worthy of mention, and then moreover within each nation
there were as many chieftains as there were cities. These went with the
expedition too not as commanders, but like the others serving as slaves;
for the generals who had the absolute power and commanded the various
nations, that is to say those who were Persians, having already been
mentioned by me.

97. Of the naval force the following were commanders,--Ariabignes the
son of Dareios, Prexaspes the son of Aspathines, Megabazos the son of
Megabates, and Achaimenes the son of Dareios; that is to say, of the
Ionian and Carian force Ariabignes, who was the son of Dareios and of
the daughter of Gobryas; of the Egyptians Achaimenes was commander,
being brother of Xerxes by both parents; and of the rest of the armament
the other two were in command: and galleys of thirty oars and of fifty
oars, and light vessels, 90 and long 91 ships to carry horses had been
assembled together, as it proved, to the number of three thousand.

98. Of those who sailed in the ships the men of most note after the
commanders were these,--of Sidon,