sentences:  The Danaids call the country the "Apian hills" and claim that it understands the "karbana audan" (accusative case, and in the Dorian dialect), which many translate as "barbarian speech" but Karba (where the "Karbanoi" live) is in fact a non-Greek word.They claim to descend from ancestors in ancient Argos even though they are of a "dark race" ("melanthes ... genos").Pelasgus admits that the land was once called Apia but compares them to the women of Libya and Egypt and wants to know how they can be from Argos on which they cite descent from Io.