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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.
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