rdingly
submit to the reader the following evidences; which are comparatively few,
if we consider what might be brought to this purpose. These are to shew,
that the Helladians were of a different race from the sons of Japhet: and
that the country, when they came to it, was in the possession of another
people: which people they distinguished from themselves by the title of
[Greek: Barbaroi].
[Greek: Hekataios men oun ho Milesios peri tes Peloponnesou phesin, hoti
pro ton Hellenon oikesan auten Barbaroi; schedon de ti kai he sumpasa
Hellas katoikia Barbaron huperxato to palaion]. Strabo. l. 7. p. 321.
[Greek: Eisi de hemon archaioteroi Barbaroi]. Plato in Cratylo. vol. 1. p.
425.
[Greek: Palai tes nun kaloumenes Hellados Barbaroi ta polla oikesan.]
Pausanias. l. 1. p. 100.
[Greek: Arkadian Barbaroi oikesan]. Scholia Apollonii Rhod. l. 3. v. 461.
Diodorus mentions, [Greek: Athenaious--apoikous Saiton ton ex Aiguptou]. l.
1. p. 24.
Again--[Greek: Genomenai de kai ton hegemonon tinas Aiguptious para tois
Athenaiois]. ibidem.
Africanus having spoken of the Egyptian rites, says, [Greek: Hoti te
Athenaious ton auton Aiguptiois apolauein eikos en, apoikous ekeinon
aponooumenous, hos phasin alloi te, kai en toi Trikarenoi Theopompos]. Apud
Euseb. Praep. Evan. l. x. c. x. p. 491.
Concerning persons from Egypt.
[Greek: Kekrops, Aiguptios on, duo glossas epistato]. Cedrenus p. 82.
[Greek: Kekrops, Aiguptios to genos, oikise tas Athenas]. Scholia Aristoph.
Pluti.
[Greek: Hosde apo Saeos poleos Aiguptias,]
[Greek: Meta ton kata Ogugon kataklusmon ekeinon,]
[Greek: Ho Kekrops paregegonen Athenais tes Hellados.] J. Tzetzes. Chil.
v. hist. 18.
[Greek: Kekrops, Aiguptios to genos, oikese tas Athenas]. Suidas.
Pausanias mentions [Greek: Lelega aphikomenon ex Aiguptou]. l. 1. p. 95.
Erectheus from Egypt. [Greek: Kai ton Erechthea legousi to genos Aiguption
onta.] Diodorus. l. 1. p. 25.
Triptolemus from thence, who had been the companion of Osiris. Diodorus. l.
1. p. 17. He gave the Athenians laws. Porphyry mentions [Greek: Ton
Atheneisi nomotheton Triptolemon.] Abstinent. l. 4. p. 431.
It is said, that Danaus was a native of the city Chemmis; from whence he
made his expedition to Greece. [Greek: Danaos Chemmites.] Herodotus. l. 2.
c. 91.
Navem primus ex AEgypto Danaus advexit. Pliny. l. 7. c. 56. He brought a
colony with him. [Greek: Legousi de tous peri Danaon hormethentas homoios
ekeithe
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