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dread of being fwallowed up by the oriental colonies which 
were from time to time arriving in Greece, engaged all the 
petty dynafties in the neighbourhood to folicit admittance into 
that confederacy. At firft this affociation confifted only of 
- twelve petty ftates, and reached from the fouthern confines of 
modern Theflaly to the Ifthmus of Corinth. When the Dores, 
who had been included in the Amphi@tyonic league, and had 
confequently adopted the name of Hellenes, fell into Pelopon- 
nefus, and madethemfelves mafters of the greateft part of that 
country, they communicated their name to their new fubjects ; 
fo that, in procefs of time, the original name Graz was aban- 
doned and forgotten, and all the tribes of the Greeks became 
Hellenes ; a name which they retained as long as the nation ex- 
ifted. Hence, in procefs of time, all mankind came to be di- 
vided into ‘EAAnves xo BaeGaeos, ‘ Greeks and Barbarians.’’ 
END OF THE DISSERTATION. 
APPENDIX concerninc THE AMPHICTYONES. 
HOUGH I have omitted the explication of the council of 
the Amphictyones in the body of the preceding differta- 
tion, in order to avoid prolixity, I fhall here add a few ftric- 
tures upon that fubject. 
Ir was obferved in the foregoing paper, that the Greeks a- 
fcribed the inftitution of this council to AmMpHictyoNn. This 
Prince, according to them, was the fon of Dguca.ion, and 
VoL. IIE. u the 
