The Dorians of Asia (continent)Asia furnished thirty ships; their armor was Greek; they are of Peloponnesian descent. The Carians furnished seventy ships; they had scimitars and daggers, but the rest of their equipment was Greek. I have said in the beginning of my history 1 what they were formerly called.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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