History of Greece Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...its upper course and farther southward to the Pamphylian sea. Westward of the Halys, the languages were not Semitic, but belonging to a totally different family,1--cognate, yet distinct one from an 1 Herodot. i, 72; Heeren, Ideen iiber den Verkehr der Alten Welt, part i, abth. i, pp. 142-145. It may be remarked, however, that the Armenians, eastward of the Halys, are treated by Herodotus as colonists from the Phrygians (vii, 73): Stephanus Byz. says the same, v; 'Apfievia, adding also, Kal (puvr/ Tto'axu. ippvyiovoi. The more careful researches of modern linguists, after much groundless assertion on the part of those who preceded them, have shown that the Armenian language belongs in its structure to the IndoNATIONS IN ASIA MINOR. 207 other, perhaps not mutually intelligible. The Karians, Lydians, and Mysians recognized a certain degree of brotherhood with each other, attested by common religious sacrifices in the temple of Zeus Karios, at Mylasa.1 But it is by no means certain that each of these nations mutually comprehended each other's speech; and Herodotus, from whom we derive the knowledge of these common sacrifices, acquaints us at the same time that the Kaunians in the south-western corner of the peninsula had no share in them, though speaking the same language as the Karians; he does not, however, seem to consider identity or difference of language as a test of national affinity. Along the coast of the Euxine, from the Thracian Bosphorus eastward to the river Halys, dwelt Bilhynians or Thynians, Mariandynians and Paphlagonians, --all recognized branches of the widely-extended Thracian race. The Bithynians especially, in the north-western portion of this territory, and reaching from the Euxine to the Propontis, are often spoken of as Asiatic Turacians..