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eport, upon the Erythraian Sea, and thence they passed over and dwellin the country along the sea coast of Syria; and this part of Syriaand all as far as Egypt is called Palestine. The Egyptians furnishedtwo hundred ships: these men had about their heads helmets of plaitedwork, and they had hollow shields with the rims large, and spears forsea-fighting, and large axes:[83] the greater number of them worecorslets, and they had large knives. 90. These men were thus equipped;and the Cyprians furnished a hundred and fifty ships, being themselvesequipped as follows,--their kings had their heads wound round withfillets,[84] and the rest had tunics,[85] but in other respects theywere like the Hellenes. Among these there are various races asfollows,--some of them are from Salamis and Athens, others fromArcadia, others from Kythnos, others again from Phenicia and othersfrom Ethiopia, as the Cyprians themselves report. 91. The Kilikiansfurnished a hundred ships; and these again had about their headsnative helmets, and for shields they carried targets made of raw oxhide:they wore tunics[86] of wool and each man had two javelins and asword, this last being made very like the Egyptian knives. These inold time were called Hypachaians, and they got their later name fromKilix the son of Agenor, a Phenician. The Pamphylians furnished thirtyships and were equipped in Hellenic arms. These Pamphylians are ofthose who were dispersed from Troy together with Amphilochos andCalchas. 92. The Lykians furnished fifty ships; and they were wearersof corslets and greaves, and had bows of cornel-wood and arrows ofreeds without feathers and javelins and a goat-skin hanging over theirshoulders, and about their heads felt caps wreathed round withfeathers; also they had daggers and falchions.[87] The Lykians wereformerly called Termilai, being originally of Crete, and they gottheir later name from Lycos the son of Pandion, an Athenian. 93. TheDorians of Asia furnished thirty ships; and these had Hellenic armsand were originally from the Peloponnese. The Carians supplied seventyships; and they were equipped in other respects like Hellenes but theyhad also falchions and daggers. What was the former name of these hasbeen told in the first part of the history.[88] 94. The Ioniansfurnished a hundred ships, and were equipped like Hellenes. Now theIonians, so long time as they dwelt in the Peloponnese, in the landwhich is now called Achaia, and before the time when Danaos and Xuthoscame to the Peloponnese, were called, as the Hellenes report,Pelasgians of the Coast-land,[89] and then Ionians after Ion the sonof Xuthos. 95. The islanders furnished seventeen ships, and were armedlike Hellenes, this also being a Pelasgian race, though afterwards itcame to be called Ionian by the same rule as the Ionians of the twelvecities, who came from Athens. The Aiolians supplied sixty ships; andthese were equipped like Hellenes and used to be called Pelasgians inthe old time, as the Hellenes report. The Hellespontians, exceptingthose of Abydos (for the men of Abydos had been appointed by the king