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lonians; the one Pelasgic, the other Hellenic: the former 

 never quitted the country' it first settled in ; the latter fre- 

 quently' did. And, §. 57, he says, " the Pelasgi spoke a 

 " barbarian language; and, that being so, that it follows, 

 " that the Athenians, originally Pelasgi, forgot their own 

 '• language, when they became Hellenes, and learned that 

 " of the Hellenes." If this account be understood of 

 those, whom Herodotus called Hellenes, it is evidently 

 false: those, which he called Hellenes, were inhabitants of 

 Phthiotis, in Thessal}'; as he himself declares. Now these 

 not only never conquered, but did not even attack, nor 

 enter into Attica How, then, in his sense, could the Pe- 

 lasgi of Attica become Hellenes, and forget their own 

 language? That the Pelasgic inhabitants of Attica did, 

 however, become Hellenes, is true; but it Avas by jnixing, 

 and being incorporated -with the Ionic Hellenes, as above 

 stated. It is also plain, that these Ionic Hellenes were 

 much more numerous than the Pelasgi, with whom they 

 were incorporated; otherwise their language would not 

 have prevailed: yet, both together could not amount to 

 any considerable number; since, upwards of IBO years af- 

 ter the arrival of the lonians, the joint population did not 

 exceed 20,000.* Herodotus further adds, §. 58, that, in 

 his opinion, the Hellenes always spoke the same language, 

 from their very origin; and, that though they were, at 

 first, few and weak, when considered apart from the Pe- 

 lasgi, 

 * ,'^ee the amliors, quoted by Goguet, Vol. II. p. 20, English. 



