1.147.2
and all are Ionians who are of Athenian descent and keep the feast Apaturia. note All do keep it, except the men of Ephesus and Colophon; these are the only Ionians who do not keep it, and these because, they say, of a certain pretext of murder.
ch. 148
1.148.1
The Panionion is a sacred ground in Mykale, facing north; it was set apart for Poseidon of Helicon by the joint will of the Ionians. Mykale is a western promontory of the mainland opposite Samos; the Ionians used to assemble there from their cities and keep the festival to which they gave the name of Panionia.
1.148.2
Not only the Ionian festivals, but all those of all the Greeks alike, end in the same letter, just as do the names of the Persians.
ch. 149
1.149.1
Those are the Ionian cities, and these are the Aeolian: Cyme (called “Phriconian”), note Lerisae, Neon Teichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegaeae, Myrina, Gryneia. note These are the ancient Aeolian cities, eleven in number; but one of them, Smyrna, was taken away by the Ionians; for these too were once twelve, on the mainland.
1.149.2
These Aeolians had settled where the land was better than the Ionian territory, but the climate was not so good.
ch. 150
1.150.1
Now this is how the Aeolians lost Smyrna. Some men of Colophon, the losers in civil strife and exiles from their country, had been received by them into the town. These Colophonian exiles waited for the time when the men of Smyrna were holding a festival to Dionysus outside the walls; then they shut the gates and so got the city.
1.150.2
Then all the Aeolians came to recover it; and an agreement was made, whereby the Aeolians would receive back their movable goods from the Ionians, and leave the city. After this was done, the other eleven cities divided the Smyrnaeans among themselves and made them citizens of their own.
ch. 151
1.151.1
These then are the Aeolian cities on the mainland, besides those that are situated on Ida and are separate.
1.151.2
Among those on the islands, five divide Lesbos among them (there was a sixth on Lesbos, Arisba, but its people were enslaved by their kinfolk of Methymna); there is one on Tenedos, and one again in the “Hundred Isles,” note as they are called.
