526 Rev. Mr Wituiams on one Source of the 
* Ciminus. 
Si-Cimina. 
> Cumerium Promontorium. 
geum pelagus, ad Syriam montem Taurum, in Sabinis Canterium montem.” ‘ Have 
not the characteristics of regions, both by sea and land, been derived from them? 
was not the Aigean Sea derived from Asycs? the mountain near Syria from Taugos? 
and that in the Sabini, from Cantherium, ‘ a beast of burden?” Now, if it can be 
shown that the learned antiquary is wrong in the first, it may be inferred that he 
may be also mistaken with respect to the last. Now from Asoow, “ I rush violently, 
I spring,” came Az, “ a goat, a springing animal,” and wé, “ impetuosity.” From 
this second AE came Avs, “ an impetuous squall of wind,” as may be seen in the 
compound Kalas, thus defined by ARISTOTLE, “© Toy yewuny Brosay cvevwolluv nollosyic 
peev cols orvevince covey rumloy eLoupyns.” Of the violent winds, the xoayis is “a blast that 
suddenly strikes from above.” The Aigean is therefore not the Goat Sea, but the 
Squally Sea, a name which, all who know it say, it well deserves. Hence also in Homer, 
Aywyos, the epithet of Homfrr’s Jupiter, the Storm-restrainer, not the Goat-skin- 
holder, as later commentators interpreted the word. Mount Taurus was not named 
after “ the Bull,” but from Zor, one of the most universally diffused names for a 
bold and aspiring peak. Canterius Mons, also, has nothing to do with a “ gelding,” 
but was named, on the same principle as many other hills, from “ Can,” or Canus, 
white, and Terra (originally Tera), land; or, in the Cumrian form, from the same 
words, “ Cantir,” from “* Can,” white, and Tir, land. 
1 Mons Ciminus was a long and lofty ridge in Etruria, the passage of which (at 
least if we credit the annals of the Fabian family) formed an era in the history of 
early Rome. I have already observed that the M of the Romans was more of a 
vocal than consonantal letter. Hence, this same name of a hill, when applied to the 
range of hills in the south-east of France, and written Kees by the Greeks, and 
Cebenna by the Latins, still keeps its original sound in the French Cevennes. 
But in the language of the modern Cumri (see OweEn’s Dict.), Cevyn (pronounced 
Ceven, pl. Cevenau), is “ a ridge, as Cevyn o dir, a ridge of land, a long extended 
mountain.” From the same root comes Ceba, now Ceva, a town and district of 
Piedmont; the Cevin or Chevin Hills, in Yorkshire; and the Cheviot Hills, called 
formerly Chevy, the well-known ridge between Scotland and England. To these 
may be added the ancient Si-Cimino, a mountain of Liguria. 
2 Cumerium Promontorium, now Monte Comero, a bold headland in Picenum, 
still commemorating the possession of that district by the Cumri, under their true 
name, and a record as lasting as the Mont-Gomeri, in France, and the Comri Isles, 
in the Frith of Clyde, probably in all cases the last retreat of the bravest spirits of 
a vanquished district. 
