the whole number of nations enrolled in this war under the Athenians and Lacedaemonians.
57 I will now enumerate the various peoples who came to Athenian allies. Scicily as friends of enemies, to share either in the conquest or in the defence of the country, and who fought before Syracuse[1], choosing their side, not so much from a sense of right, or from obligations of kinship, as from the accident of compulsion or of their own interest.
The Athenians themselves, who were lonians, went of (A)In Hellas proper. their own free wikk against the Syracusans, who were Dorians ; they were followed by the Lemnians and Imbrians[2] and the then (i) Their own settlers. inhabitants of Aegina[3] and by the Hestiaeans dwelling at Hestiaea in Euboea[4]: all these were their own colonists, speaking the same language with them, and retaining the same institutions.
Of the rest who joined in the expedition, some were
(ii) Subjects, mostly tributaries, who were
(i) Ionians.
subjects, others independent allies,
some again mercenaries. Of the sub-tributaries, the Eretrians,
Chalcidians, Styreans, and Carystians came from Euboea;
the Ceans, Andrians, and Tenians from the islands ; the
Milesians, Samians, and Chians from Ionia. Of these
however the Chians[5] were independent, and instead of
paying tribute, provided ships. All or nearly all were
lonians and descendants of the Athenians, with the exception of the Carystians, who are Dryopes. They were
subjects and constrained to follow, but still they were
lonians fighting against Dorians. There were also
(2) Aeolians partly subjects. Aeolians, namely, the Methymnaeans[6]
who furnished ships but were not
tributaries, and the Tenedians and Aenians, who paid
