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The Hellespontines are the Greeks of North-west Asia Minor.

For the Thracians cf. vii. 75 n., where they are called ‘Bithynians’, and the story of their immigration is given; the Mariandynians were well known to the Greeks from their neighbourhood to the colony of Heraclea (Xen. Anab. vi. 2. 1).

For the Syrians (= the Cappadocians) cf. i. 72 n. The name is one of several proofs that H. did not borrow this list from Hecataeus, as some have suggested: Hec. (fr. 194; F. H. G. i. 13) calls this people Λευκόσυροι (contrast too his Τίβαροι (fr. 193) with Τιβαρηνοί in iii. 94). Darius gives the native name ‘Katapatuka’ in his list of conquests. The official name of the third satrapy was Dascylitis (Thuc. i. 129. 1).

The third satrapy was hereditary in the house of Pharnaces, who was descended from one of the ‘Seven’ (cf. 84. n.).

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