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From the mainland of Greece beyond the Peloponnese, came the
Athenians with a hundred and eighty ships, a greater number than that
furnished by any other people; and these were now manned wholly by
themselves; for the Plataeans did not serve aboard the Athenian ships
at Salamis, owing to the following reason. When the Greeks, on
their withdrawal from Artemisium, arrived off Chalcis, the
Plataeans disembarked upon the opposite shore of Boeotia, and set to
work to remove their households, whereby it happened that they were
left behind. (The Athenians, when the region which is now called
Greece was held by the Pelasgi, were Pelasgians, and bore the name
of Cranaans; but under their king Cecrops, they were called
Cecropidae; when Erechtheus got the sovereignty, they changed their
name to Athenians; and when Ion, the son of Xuthus, became their
general, they were named after him Ionians.)
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