On the Ancient HELLENES. r45 
imported much the fame idea with the term Zadian; that in 
Egypt in particular there was a race of priefts denominated 
Hellenes.—Let us now fee to what purpofe we mean to apply 
the foregoing obfervations. 
WE have already fhewn from Herroporus, that the oracle 
of Dodona was an Egyptian erection; that the Helli or Selli 
were the minifters of the Deity; that thefe Helli, afterwards 
Hellenes, were originally worfhippers of the Sun, this planet 
being the primary JuPITER of the Greeks and Romans; that 
there was in the neighbourhood of that temple, a city called 
Hellas, the capital of a diftrict called Hellopia; that the inha- 
bitants of this canton were the original Hellenes of Greece ; 
and, laftly, that the Theflalian Hellenes were a colony of emi- 
grants from the laft mentioned people. I fhould now proceed 
to inveftigate by what means the Hellenes of Theflaly grew fo 
confiderable, as to communicate their name to all the other 
communities of Greece. But before I enter upon this part of ° 
the fubject, I fhall take the liberty to hazard a few etymologi- 
cal conjectures, which, if admitted, will operate as collateral 
proofs of the hypothefis. 
I oBsERVED in that part of this difquifition where I treated 
of the emigration of the Dodonean Helli, that, though the 
leaders of the colony were undoubtedly Egyptians, yet a num- 
ber of Phoenicians were probably mingled with thefe emi- 
grants. I fhall now fhow, that moft of the names conneéted 
with the temple. and oracle, were actually Phoenician. Hello- 
pia, the name of the canton around the temple, fignifies a ter- 
ritory facred to the fun and the moon. I have fhewn above, 
that E/ or Hel was a name of the fun. Ops, Opis, Upis, was a 
Pelafgic name of the moon. In the Egyptian language, Od 
was a name of the fun, and of courfe Oba became a title of 
his fifter divinity. The confonants 4 and / being-both labials, 
naturally pafs into each other. Hence Oba or Uba became Opa 
and Upa. From Hel and Opa combined originates Hellopa ; 
Vou. III. t whence 
