Carians
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Cyropaedia
People invited to the enemy expedition but not reported as joining.
The Carians, however, and Cilicians and Paphlagonians, they say, have not joined the expedition, although they have been invited to do so.
And again Cyrus ordered proclamation to be made that if there were any one from Media or Persia or Bactria or Caria or Greece or anywhere else forced into service as a slave in the army of the Assyrians or Syrians or Arabians, he should show himself.
and when he refused, they sent to Cyrus to petition him to send Adusius to be their satrap.
The Histories
A people of southwestern Asia Minor, said by some to be former islanders under Minos and by others to be aboriginal mainlanders, credited with military innovations.
Of these, the Carians have come to the mainland from the islands;
Then, a long time afterwards, the Carians were driven from the islands by Dorians and Ionians and so came to the mainland.
it was the Carians who originated wearing crests on their helmets and devices on their shields, and who first made grips for their shields;
Birds
A people compared by Epops to the crested birds, said to cling to mountain crests for safety.
They are like the Carians, who cling to the crests of their mountains for greater safety.
Stromata
People credited with devising astral divination.
And there are those who say the Carians devised foretelling through the stars.
For the Liberty of the Rhodians
The non-Greek forces associated with Rhodian subjection in the speaker's rhetoric.
they spurned an alliance with you who are Greeks and their betters, and now they are slaves of barbarians, slaves of slaves, whom they admitted into their citadels.
Cyclops
People used proverbially by the Chorus to mean someone else who will take the dangerous risk
the Carian shall run the risk for us;
Iliad
Trojan-allied people of strange speech holding Miletus, led by Nastes and Amphimakhos.
Nastes led the Carians, men of a strange speech.
These were commanded by Nastes and Amphimakhos, the brave sons of Nomion.
Helen
A people said to have colonized the Aegean islands before the Trojan War.
and in consequence, we experienced a change so great that, although in former times any barbarians who were in misfortune presumed to be rulers over the Greek cities (for example, Danaus, an exile from Egypt, occupied Argos, Cadmus of Sidon became king of Thebes, the Carians colonized the islands, and Pelops, son of Tantalus, became master of all the Peloponnese), yet after that war our race expan …
Panathenaicus
A non-Greek or foreign group occupying the Cyclades before Athenian intervention.
First they took the islands of the Cyclades, about which there had been much contention during the overlordship of Minos of Crete and which finally were occupied by the Carians, and, having driven out the latter, refrained from appropriating the lands of these islands for themselves, but instead settled upon them those of the Hellenes who were most lacking in means of subsistence.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A people identified as early piratical colonizers of the Aegean islands, later expelled by Minos and confirmed archaeologically through burials found at Delos.
And the islanders especially were pirates, being Carians and Phoenicians.
and both ruled over the islands called Cyclades, and was the first that colonized most of them, having expelled the Carians, and established his own sons in them as governors;
Hellenica
Native troops of Caria, identifiable in the narrative by their white shields, serving in the combined Persian battle line.
and when they also sent men to the tops of the mounds and towers in their neighbourhood, they made out an army drawn up in line of battle where their own road ran—Carians with white shields, the entire Persian force which chanced to be at hand, all the Greek troops which each of the two satraps had, and horsemen in great numbers, those of Tissaphernes upon the right wing and those of Pharnabazus upon the left.