bjects paying tribute belonged the
Eretrians, Chalcidians, Styrians, and Carystians from Euboea; the Ceans,
Andrians, and Tenians from the islands; and the Milesians, Samians, and
Chians from Ionia. The Chians, however, joined as independent allies,
paying no tribute, but furnishing ships. Most of these were Ionians and
descended from the Athenians, except the Carystians, who are Dryopes,
and although subjects and obliged to serve, were still Ionians fighting
against Dorians. Besides these there were men of Aeolic race, the
Methymnians, subjects who provided ships, not tribute, and the Tenedians
and Aenians who paid tribute. These Aeolians fought against their
Aeolian founders, the Boeotians in the Syracusan army, because they
were obliged, while the Plataeans, the only native Boeotians opposed to
Boeotians, did so upon a just quarrel. Of the Rhodians and Cytherians,
both Dorians, the latter, Lacedaemonian colonists, fought in the
Athenian ranks against their Lacedaemonian countrymen with Gylippus;
while the Rhodians, Argives by race, were compelled to bear arms against
the Dorian Syracusans and their own colonists, the Geloans, serving with
the Syracusans. Of the islanders round Peloponnese, the Cephallenians
and Zacynthians accompanied the Athenians as independent allies,
although their insular position really left them little choice in
the matter, owing to the maritime supremacy of Athens, while the
Corcyraeans, who were not only Dorians but Corinthians, were openly
serving against Corinthians and Syracusans, although colonists of the
former and of the same race as the latter, under colour of compulsion,
but really out of free will through hatred of Corinth. The Messenians,
as they are now called in Naupactus and from Pylos, then held by the
Athenians, were taken with them to the war. There were also a few
Megarian exiles, whose fate it was to be now fighting against the
Megarian Selinuntines.

The engagement of the rest was more of a voluntary nature. It was less
the league than hatred of the Lacedaemonians and the immediate private
advantage of each individual that persuaded the Dorian Argives to join
the Ionian Athenians in a war against Dorians; while the Mantineans and
other Arcadian mercenaries, accustomed to go against the enemy pointed
out to them at the moment, were led by interest to regard the Arcadians
serving with the Corinthians as just as much their enemies as any
others. The Cretans and Aetolians also