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not engage at all in regular colonization until long after the Trojan 

 war. However, it is afferted by fome that the Trojans were a 

 colony from Greece, and fettled there, according to tradition, 

 about two hundred years before the Trojan war. Now the lan- 

 guage of the mother country is generally, indeed almoft invariably, 

 adopted by her colonifts. Is it not then a finguhir circumftance 

 that /Efchylus fhould in the moft unequivocal manner mention 

 Troy as a city fpeaking a language different from that of 

 Greece ? Whether a tradition of this nature, unfupported by any 

 great hiftorical authority that I know of, is entirely to over- 

 balance the plain and unbiafTed teftimony of ^fchylus, may 

 reafonably be queftioned. The account of Dardanus, from 

 whom the Trojans were faid to be defcended, is certainly given 

 by an excellent author* and admirable critic j but it is almoft loft 

 fn poetic fable, and unconnedted with any proof whatever. Let 

 us fee what it amounts to: Atlas, the firft king of Arcadia, had 

 feven daughters ; Jupiter married one of them, and had two fons, 

 Jafus and Dardanus : A great deluge which took place in Arcadia 

 fcparated the brothers, and the family of Dardanus migrated to 

 Afia, where they fettled in that country, which was afterwards 

 called Phrygia. Jafus, it feems, when in Samotlirace, paid his 

 addreffes to the goddefs Ceres, and in return for his alTiduities 

 was (truck dead by lightning ; a very common mode amongft the 

 ladies of the heathen mythology of getting rid of an importunate 

 lover. After ftating thefc and fome other particulars of equal 

 importance and authenticity, he (Dionyfius) fays, " I have now 

 " made it evidently appear that the Trojans are defcended from the 



* Dionyfms of Halecarnaffus. 



" Greeks." 



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