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νησιῶται: the term is ambiguous and obscure. Baehr refers it to the Kyklades on the strengtb of Hdt.'s usage, cp. 5. 30, 6. 49; Larcber specifies Keos, Naxos, Siphnos, Seriphos, Andros, Tenos. Stein, noticing the ahsence of tbe article, interprets “most of the Aegean islands, especially the Kyklades.” But the contingents from tbe Kyklades only joined tbe king's fleet after Artemision, probably at Phaleron, cp. 8. 66 infra; and five Nesiote states sent their ships to the national fleet, 8. 46. Leake (Athens and the Demi, Appendix ii. p. 237) suggested Lemnos and Imbros, but they bardly correspond to the requirement of ex-Pelasgian Ionians κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον καὶ οἱ δυωδεκαπόλιες Ἴωνες οἱ ἀπ᾽ Ἀθηνέων. Cp., bowever, App. Crit. The Samothiakians are spoken of as Ionians in 8. 90, but perhaps ‘without prejudiee.’ On the wbole Hdt. here probably means tbe Ionians of the Kyklades, but has tbereby involved himself in an inconsequence, valuable to us as betraying bis methods. His navy-list is probably valid, so far as autbentic at all, not for Doriskos, but for Salamis (cp. c. 89 supra), and it is a tour de force on his part to bave sbifted the scene.
Αἰολέες supply sixty ships. At Lade Lesbos alone (if Hdt. 6. 8 is to be trusted) had supplied seventy. ‘Aiolis’ was a ‘Dodekapolis’ (1. 149): it is noticeable tbat there is no reference back to tbat passage which might interpret the vague title here used.
ὡς Ἑλλήνων λόγος: cp. c. 94 supra. Ἑλλησπόντιοι ... οἱ ἐκ τοῦ Πόντου στρατευόμενοι supply 100 ships. A curious title: Stein explains Πόντος bere as used in a narrower sense of Bosporos, Propontis, Hellespont, and refers to c. 36 supra where he takes Πόντος (τοῦ μὲν Πόντου ἐπικαρσίας) as the Propontis (cp. notes ad l.). Tbis interpretation may stand; but would Hdt. bave used Πόντος in this loose fashion after writing 4. 85, 86? This passage appears of earlier composition, and written previously to bis own visit to tbat region; cp. Introduction, § 8.
Ἰώνων καὶ Δωριέων ἄποικοι. Ionian: (Abydos), Lampsakos, Kyzikos, Prokonnesos, Perinthos, etc. Dorian: Kalchedon, Byzantion, Selymbria, Astakos. Sestos was Aiolian (9. 115), and possibly helped the Abydeni to guard the bridge, of course under Persian superintendence.
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