§1.56.1τούτοισι ἐλθοῦσι τοῖσι ἔπεσι ὁ Κροῖσος πολλόν τι μάλιστα πάντων ἥσθη, ἐλπίζων ἡμίονον οὐδαμὰ ἀντʼ ἀνδρὸς βασιλεύσειν Μήδων, οὐδʼ ὦν αὐτὸς οὐδὲ οἱ ἐξ αὐτοῦ παύσεσθαι κοτὲ τῆς ἀρχῆς.
Croesus was by far the most pleased of all with these verses when they arrived, hoping that a mule would never rule the Medes in place of a man, and therefore that neither he himself nor his descendants would ever lose their power.
μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἐφρόντιζε ἱστορέων τοὺς ἂν Ἑλλήνων δυνατωτάτους ἐόντας προσκτήσαιτο φίλους,
After this, he considered, by inquiring, who were the most powerful of the Greeks whom he might acquire as allies.
§1.56.2ἱστορέων δὲ εὕρισκε Λακεδαιμονίους καὶ Ἀθηναίους προέχοντας τοὺς μὲν τοῦ Δωρικοῦ γένεος τοὺς δὲ τοῦ Ἰωνικοῦ.
And in inquiring he found that the Lacedaemonians and the Athenians were preeminent, the former of the Doric race, the latter of the Ionic.
ταῦτα γὰρ ἦν τὰ προκεκριμένα, ἐόντα τὸ ἀρχαῖον τὸ μὲν Πελασγικὸν τὸ δὲ Ἑλληνικὸν ἔθνος.
For these were the most distinguished of old, being the one a Pelasgian, the other a Hellenic nation.
καὶ τὸ μὲν οὐδαμῇ κω ἐξεχώρησε, τὸ δὲ πολυπλάνητον κάρτα.
And the former had never yet migrated anywhere, while the latter was exceedingly migratory.
§1.56.3ἐπὶ μὲν γὰρ Δευκαλίωνος βασιλέος οἴκεε γῆν τὴν Φθιῶτιν, ἐπὶ δὲ Δώρου τοῦ Ἕλληνος τὴν ὑπὸ τὴν Ὄσσαν τε καὶ τὸν Ὄλυμπον χώρην, καλεομένην δὲ Ἱστιαιῶτιν· ἐκ δὲ τῆς Ἱστιαιώτιδος ὡς ἐξανέστη ὑπὸ Καδμείων, οἴκεε ἐν Πίνδῳ Μακεδνὸν καλεόμενον· ἐνθεῦτεν δὲ αὖτις ἐς τὴν Δρυοπίδα μετέβη καὶ ἐκ τῆς Δρυοπίδος οὕτω ἐς Πελοπόννησον ἐλθὸν Δωρικὸν ἐκλήθη.
For in the reign of King Deucalion it inhabited the land of Phthiotis; and in the time of Dorus, the son of Hellen, the region under Ossa and Olympus, called Histiaeotis; but being driven out of Histiaeotis by the Cadmeans, it dwelt on Mount Pindus, being called Macednian; and from there it moved again to Dryopis, and from Dryopis it came in this way to the Peloponnese and was called Doric.