§1.25.1ἦσαν δὲ τά τε πολέμια ἐκ τοῦ μετὰ κινδύνων πεποιῆσθαι τὰς μελέτας ἐν ἔθνεσι φιλοπολέμοις ζῶντες πολλῶν ἀμείνους καὶ τῆς κατὰ τὰ ναυτικὰ ἐπιστήμης διὰ τὴν μετὰ Τυρρηνῶν οἴκησιν ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐληλακότες· ἥ τε ἀνάγκη ἱκανὴ οὖσα τοῖς ἀπορουμένοις βίου τόλμαν παρασχεῖν ἡγεμών τε καὶ διδάσκαλος τοῦ παντὸς κινδυνεύματος αὐτοῖς ἐγίνετο, §1.25.2ὥστε οὐ χαλεπῶς ὅπη ἐπέλθοιεν ἐπεκράτουν.
And they were, in matters of war, much superior to many because they practiced their exercises amidst dangers while living among warlike nations, and they had advanced to the highest degree in the knowledge of seamanship because of their dwelling together with the Tyrrhenians; and necessity, which is sufficient to impart daring to those who are destitute of livelihood, became their guide and teacher in every dangerous enterprise, so that they easily prevailed wherever they made an incursion.
ἐκαλοῦντο δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων τῆς τε χώρας ἐπικλήσει ἀφʼ ἧς ἐξανέστησαν καὶ τοῦ παλαιοῦ γένους μνήμῃ οἱ αὐτοὶ Τυρρηνοὶ καὶ Πελασγοί.
And they were called by other men, both after the name of the land from which they had been driven out and from the remembrance of their ancient race, by the same names, Tyrrhenians and Pelasgians.
ὧν ἐγὼ λόγον ἐποιησάμην τοῦ μή τινα θαῦμα ποιεῖσθαι, ἐπειδὰν ποιητῶν ἢ συγγραφέων ἀκούῃ τοὺς Πελασγοὺς καὶ Τυρρηνοὺς ὀνομαζόντων, πῶς ἀμφοτέρας ἔσχον τὰς ἐπωνυμίας οἱ αὐτοί.
I have made mention of these things so that no one should wonder, whenever he hears poets or historians calling them Pelasgians and Tyrrhenians, how the same people came to have both names.
§1.25.3ἔχει γὰρ περὶ αὐτῶν καὶ Θουκυδίδης μὲν ἐναργῆ ἀκτῆς τῆς Θρᾳκίας μνήμην καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ κειμένων πόλεων, ἃς οἰκοῦσιν ἄνθρωποι δίγλωττοι.
For indeed, Thucydides also has a clear mention of them, concerning the coast of Thrace and the cities situated therein, which are inhabited by bilingual people.
περὶ δὲ τοῦ Πελασγικοῦ ἔθνους ὅδε ὁ λόγος· ʽἔνι δέ τι καὶ Χαλκιδικὸν, τὸ δὲ πλεῖστον Πελασγικὸν τῶν καὶ Λῆμνόν ποτε καὶ Ἀθήνας οἰκησάντων Τυρρηνῶνʼ. §1.25.4Σοφοκλεῖ δʼ ἐν Ἰνάχῳ δράματι ἀνάπαιστον ὑπὸ τοῦ χοροῦ λεγόμενον πεποίηται ὧδε· "Ἴναχε νᾶτορ, παῖ τοῦ κρηνῶν πατρὸς Ὠκεανοῦ, μέγα πρεσβεύων Ἄργους τε γύαις Ἥρας τε πάγοις, καὶ Τυρσηνοῖσι Πελασγοῖς. " §1.25.5Τυρρηνίας μὲν γὰρ δὴ ὄνομα τὸν χρόνον ἐκεῖνον ἀνὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἦν, καὶ πᾶσα ἡ προσεσπέριος Ἰταλία τὰς κατὰ τὸ ἔθνος ὀνομασίας ἀφαιρεθεῖσα τὴν ἐπίκλησιν ἐκείνην ἐλάμβανεν, ὥσπερ καὶ τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἄλλῃ τε πολλαχῇ καὶ περὶ τὴν καλουμένην νῦν Πελοπόννησον ἐγένετο· ἐπὶ γὰρ ἑνὸς τῶν οἰκούντων ἐν αὐτῇ ἐθνῶν, τοῦ Ἀχαϊκοῦ, καὶ ἡ σύμπασα χερρόνησος, ἐν ᾗ καὶ τὸ Ἀρκαδικὸν καὶ τὸ Ἰωνικὸν καὶ ἄλλα συχνὰ ἔθην ἔνεστιν, Ἀχαΐα ὠνομάσθη.
And concerning the Pelasgian nation, his words are these: "There is also some Chalcidian element, but the greatest part is Pelasgian, belonging to those Tyrrhenians who once inhabited Lemnos and Athens." And in Sophocles, in his drama Inachus, an anapest spoken by the chorus is composed as follows: "O Inachus, child of Ocean, the father of springs, who rule greatly over the lands of Argos, the hills of Hera, and the Tyrrhenian Pelasgians." For indeed, at that time the name of Tyrrhenia was spread throughout Greece, and all western Italy, being deprived of its names according to individual nations, received that appellation, just as happened in Greece in many other places and especially around the region now called the Peloponnese; for after one of the nations inhabiting it, namely the Achaean, the entire peninsula—in which the Arcadian, the Ionian, and many other nations are also contained—was named Achaea.