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a part of it: for Eoliis, the son of Hellen, had several 

 sons, as already mentioned. One of them, called Mimas, 

 remained in Eolis, and had a son, called Hippotes; whose 

 son, Eolns the second, had a daughter, called Arne; and 

 she had a son, called Beotus. This Beotus, witli a num- 

 ber of Eolians, invaded Cadmeia, possessed himself of a 

 part of it, and called it Boeotia. Diodor. 311. From these 

 descended those Bceotians, who assisted the Greeks in the 

 Trojan war. Diodor. 312. Thucyd. Lib. I. cap. xii. But 

 the Phoenicians continued to occupy tlie greater part of 

 Boeotia, luitil the war with the Epigoni, an. 1307, Strabo, 

 6l5; at the conclusion of which, Thebes was taken, the 

 inhabitants forced to fly into Illyria, and an Argive colony 

 settled there; who transferred the government to Ther-. 

 sander, the son of Polyniccs, by an Argive princess. Pau- 

 san. 722. At this time, and for upwards of a century 

 after, the Ionic dialect, and no other, was spoken all over 

 Greece. Pausan. 199, expressly tells us, that, before the 

 return of the Heraclidae to Peloponnesus, with an army of 

 Dorians, the Argives spoke the same dialect as the Athe- 

 nians; that is, until eighty years after the destruction of 

 Troy. Thucyd. Lib. L cap. xii. Now it is well known, that 

 the ancie<nt Attic dialect was the same as the Ionic. 

 Strabo, 513. 



Thus I have proved, that the priameval language was. 

 introduced into Greece, by the lonians, who inhabited 

 Attica; and shewn how, from them, it was extended to 

 the different regions that composed it. 



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