but as for the Ionians, I think that the reason why they made of themselves twelve cities and would not receive any more into their body, was because when they dwelt in Peloponnesus there were of them twelve divisions, just as now there are twelve divisions of the Achaians who drove the Ionians out:
145. Nire ustez, joniarrek hamabi hiri osatzen zituzten, eta hona zergatik ez zuten gehiago onartu nahi izan: