as far as Delos, 'for everything beyond was alarming to the
Hellenes, who, unacquainted with the localities, fancied that
all were crowded with hostile forces; and as to Samos, the
station of the Persian fleet, conceived it to be as distant as the
Pillars of Hercules. So that it came to this: the barbarians
were too much out of heart to sail further westward than
Samos, and the Hellenes would not move at the solicitation
of the Chians further eastward than Delos, and fear occu-
pied the interval between them.' In every word we catch
the tones of the desperate and disappointed exile. The im-
putation attaches principally to the Spartan as Admiral, and,
thus read, glances fairly at the home-keeping habits of the
Lacedaemonians, and their systematic aversion--so strange to
the maritime Ionians--to enterprises beyond the sea. The
wild projects of Aristagoras might not unreasonably be dis-
missed by Spartans upon mere statement of their geographical
¹ scope, but even the Mitylenians, though much later, and
more moderate in their request, have to apologise, in soliciting
their aid, for the remoteness of ² Lesbos.

This is one of the occasions when Herodotus seems to speak
of the Dorians as the Hellenes distinctively, and so far in
consistency with his explicit theory, that that term as com-
monly applied comprised a number of tribes, which had only
become secondarily hellenised by constant intercourse or sub-
jugation, and included even the Athenians--who were in truth
principally a contrasted Pelasgian stock, and others far less
cognate than they.

There was now, however, sufficient reason why both the
Athenian and Spartan commanders should be content not to
proceed beyond an intermediate position of guard and ob-
servation, and to consider a movement upon Ionia premature.
No success in this quarter could affect the impending conflict
between the land forces, which must needs be decided on

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