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306 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

Scicily as friends of enemies, to share either in the conquest or in the defence of the country, and who fought before Syracuse, 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 their own free wikk against the Syracusans, who were Dorians ; they were followed by the Lemnians and Imbrians and the then inhabitants of Aegina and by the Hestiaeans dwelling at Hestiaea in Euboea : 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

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 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 Aeolians, namely, the Methymnaeans who furnished ships but were not tributaries, and the Tenedians and Aenians, who paid