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then born. Yet, to this reasoning, many would, perhaps, 

 object, that the Dorians are here mentioned; who, ac- 

 cording to Strabo, 587, were so called, from Dorus, a son 

 of Hellen; who, nevertheless, was not then born. But 

 Strabo was mistaken; for Andro, an earlier historian, 

 whom he quotes, p. 729, says, they anciently inhabited 

 a district of Thessaly, called Doris; whence they came to 

 Parnassus, where Dorus settled, and governed them: and 

 hence they were called Dorians; not from him, but from 

 the territory they inhabited, afterwards called Hestiotis. 



3diy, "We may remark, that the Hellenes are not even 

 mentioned, as forming a separate tribe from the rest; as 

 Herodot. Lib. I. |. 56, asserts: for, if such a tribe then 

 existed, it could not fail of being enumerated with the 

 other tribes. He is, therefore, mistaken, in representing 

 them as a distinct tribe, inhabiting Phthiotis, in the reign 

 of Deucalion. In one sense, it is true, all the Greek 

 tribes might, and probably were, even then, called Hel- 

 lenes ; as the greater part of them descended fi'om Hellas, 

 the son of Javan, as already mentioned. But of this He- 

 rodotus was ignorant:* as was also Thucydides, Lib. I. 

 |. 3, Avho imagined the Hellenes derived their name from 

 Hellen, the son of Deucalion: and also Pausan. 262, who 

 thought all Greece was called Hellas, from an inconside- 

 rable 



* Yet, of this, the ancient Greeks seemed to have some suspicion; for, 

 Conon informs us, some thought Hellen to be a son of Jupiter Photius, 438 ; 

 that is, a person of illustrious but unknown birth. 



