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Harpagus, after subjugating Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia , made an expedition against the Carians, Caunians, and Lycians, taking Ionians and Aeolians with him.
Harpagus, after subjugating Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia , made an expedition against the Carians, Caunians, and Lycians, taking Ionians and Aeolians with him.
[2] Of these, the
Carians have come to the mainland from the islands; for in the past they were islanders, called
Leleges and under the rule of
Minos, not (as far as I can learn by report) paying tribute, but manning ships for him when he needed them.
[3] Since
Minos had subjected a good deal of territory for himself and was victorious in war, this made the
Carians too at that time by far the most respected of all nations.
[4] They invented three things in which they were followed by the
Greeks: it was the
Carians who originated wearing crests on their helmets and devices on their shields, and who first made grips for their shields; until then all who used shields carried them without these grips, and guided them with leather belts which they slung round the neck and over the left shoulder.
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[5] Then, a long time afterwards, the
Carians were driven from the islands by
Dorians and
Ionians and so came to the mainland. This is the
Cretan story about the
Carians; but the
Carians themselves do not subscribe to it, but believe that they are aboriginal inhabitants of the mainland and always bore the name which they bear now;
[6] and they point to an ancient shrine of
Carian Zeus at
Mylasa [27.8,37.3167] (Perseus)
Mylasa
, to which
Mysians and
Lydians, as brethren of the
Carians (for
Lydus and
Mysus, they say, were brothers of
Car), are admitted, but not those who spoke the same language as the
Carians but were of another people.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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