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Now these Ionians possessed the Panionion [27.1167,37.6833] (Perseus) Panionion , and of all men whom we know, they happened to found their cities in places with the loveliest of climate and seasons.
Now these Ionians possessed the Panionion [27.1167,37.6833] (Perseus) Panionion , and of all men whom we know, they happened to found their cities in places with the loveliest of climate and seasons.
[2] For neither to the north of them nor to the south does the land effect the same thing as in
Ionia (region (general)), Europe
Ionia
[nor to the east nor to the west], affected here by the cold and wet, there by the heat and drought.
[3] They do not all have the same speech but four different dialects.
Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus)
Miletus
lies farthest south among them, and next to it come
Myous (deserted settlement), Aydin Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia
Myus
and
Priene [27.2833,37.6333] (Perseus)
Priene
; these are settlements in
Caria [28,37.5] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia
Caria
, and they have a common language;
Ephesus [27.316,37.916] (deserted settlement), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia
Ephesus
,
Colophon [27.1333,38.1167] (Perseus)
Colophon
,
Lebedos,
Teos [26.8,38.1667] (Perseus)
Teos
,
Klazomenai [26.7833,38.3167] (Perseus)
Clazomenae
,
Foca [26.75,38.666] (inhabited place), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia
Phocaea
, all of them in
Lydia [27.516,38.683] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia
Lydia
,
[4] have a language in common which is wholly different from the speech of the three former cities. There are yet three
Ionian cities, two of them situated on the islands of
Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe
Samos
and
Chios [26,38.366] (island), Khios, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe
Chios
, and one,
Erythrae, on the mainland; the
Chians and
Erythraeans speak alike, but the
Samians have a language which is their own and no one else's. It is thus seen that there are four modes of speech.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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