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as Herodotus, who lived about 1000 years after this Jon, 

 and most other subsequent heathen historians, were led to 

 imagine ; for such a compliment, as the adoption of a 

 name, derived from that of an individual, was never paid 

 but to kings, or the first settlers in a country. Now Jon, 

 though general of the Athenian forces, never reigned over 

 Attica;* nor is he mentioned in the list of Athenian kings, 

 given by Pausanias, Attic, p. 7; nor in the more accurate 

 series, collected by I'Archer, Vol. VII. p. 293. Foreigners 

 seem to have been better acquainted with the origin of 

 the Greeks. Thus, the Persian Queen, Atossa, calls all 

 Greece, and not the Athenians in particular, i»yf>7", jEschy- 

 lus, Persae, v. 154. The old scholiast, on the Acarnenses 

 of Aristophanes, says, that the Thracians, Boeotians, and 

 Achseans, were called lonians: and so does Hesychius, in 

 voce i-'V. For the Thracians, also, were, prior to their mix- 

 ture with a multitude of barbarians, descendants from Jon 

 or Javan, as already seen. Hence, the Athenians boasted, 

 that their community was the most ancient of all the 

 Greek communities; and, that they had never abandoned 

 the ten'itory in which they first settled, Herod. Lib. VII. 

 §. l6l: that is, they never voluntarily quitted it, nor were 

 expelled by force. But they sent out several colonies; 

 and were, for some time, expelled, by a inatural convul- 

 sion. 



* Conon, indeed, in Photius, p. 438, says, that Jon reigned in Attica: but 

 he is contradicted by the whole series of events -of Jon's life; and, at least, 

 by implication, by all other historians, 

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