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ἕκαστος, ἕκαστοι. H. emphasizes the weakness of Ionia, i. e. the absence of union.


νήσους. H. is thinking of the bigger islands, Chios (iv. 138. 2), Samos (iii. 44. 1, but Samos was really independent iii. 120. 3); he himself says that of the Cyclades οὐδεμία ἦν ὑπὸ Δαρείῳ (v. 30. 6); and in 174. 3 he implies that the Persian power ‘stopped on the shore’. Chios had territory on mainland (160. 3 n.), so too had Lesbos, but H. here is speaking of ‘Ionians’ only.

As the Ionians had command of the sea they could still meet at Mycale.

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