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Of the islanders, the Eginetans furnished thirty ships - they had a
larger number equipped; but some were kept back to guard their own
coasts, and only thirty, which however were their best sailers, took
part in the fight at Salamis. (The Eginetans are Dorians from
Epidaurus; their island was called formerly Oenone). The
Chalcideans came next in order; they furnished the twenty ships with
which they had served at Artemisium. The Eretrians likewise
furnished their seven. These races are Ionian. Ceos gave its old
number - the Ceans are Ionians from Attica. Naxos furnished four:
this detachment, like those from the other islands, had been sent by
the citizens at home to join the Medes; but they made light of the
orders given them, and joined the Greeks, at the instigation of
Democritus, a citizen of good report, who was at that time captain of
a trireme. The Naxians are Ionians, of the Athenian stock. The
Styreans served with the same ships as before; the Cythnians
contributed one, and likewise a penteconter - these two nations are
Dryopians: the Seriphians, Siphnians, and Melians, also served;
they were the only islanders who had not given earth and water to the barbarian.
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