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but many stiU remained, who submitted to the Hellenes, 

 and were incorporated with them. The jterritor3' they thus 

 possessed, they called Ionia; in memory of their primitive 

 ancestor, and not from Jon, the son of Xuthus; as the 

 Greeks themselves, in after ages, falsely imagined. Thu^ 

 the testimonies of Hei'odqtus and Strabo should be under- 

 stood, consistently with each other, and with tljat of 

 Josephus. 



Herodotus, Lib. VHI. ^. 44, tells us, that when ,the Pe- 

 lasgi possessed the country, now called Greece, the Athe- 

 nians (that is, the inhabitants of Attica) were Pelasgi; and 

 were called Craneans, (from the roughness of the country); 

 and CecropidfE, under the reign of Cecrops; and Erech- 

 theidae, under that of Erechtheus ; and from Jon', the ge- 

 neral of their forces, they assumed the name of lonians. 

 And Strabo, Lib. IX. 608, adds, that Attica was called 

 Mopsopia, from a great grandson of Cranaus. ^But these 

 names were given only by poets; as Kuhnius has well re- 

 marked, in his notes on this passage. Thus, the Romans 

 w.ere called Romulidse, by Virgil, ^Eneid VIII. 638: but 

 this could not be called their general appellation. Mop- 

 sopus must have lived under Erectheus the second: he 

 never reigned in Attica, never performed any memorable 

 action, and was cotemporary with Jon. His name, there- 

 fore, could never be given to the country, but by poets. 



Again, Herodotus, Lib. I. §. 56, says, the principal na- 

 tions of Greece were, the Lacedemonians and Athenians ; 

 the one, among the Dorians, and the other, among the 



V 2 lonians ; 



