Book 1
142.4
have a language in common which is wholly different from the speech of the three former cities. There are yet three Ionian cities, two of them situated on the islands of Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos and Chios [26,38.366] (island), Khios, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Chios , and one, Erythrae, on the mainland; the Chians and Erythraeans speak alike, but the Samians have a language which is their own and no one else's. It is thus seen that there are four modes of speech.
143.1
Among these Ionians, the Milesians were safe from the danger (for they had made a treaty), and the islanders among them had nothing to fear: for the Phoenicians were not yet subjects of the Persians, nor were the Persians themselves mariners.
143.2
But those of Asia (continent) Asia were cut off from the rest of the Ionians only in the way that I shall show. The whole Hellenic stock was then small, and the last of all its branches and the least regarded was the Ionian; for it had no considerable city except Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus) Athens .
