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ages after, appears to have "been allowed "between the 

 Hebrews and the Spartans, as is attested by Josephus. 



Among the expelled nations, the Hellenii may have 

 been the foremost who crossed the Bosphorus, and 

 made conquests of the possessions then held by a Fin- 

 nic or Illyrian race, which, as myrmidons and helots, 

 we have already noticed ; for that these were in ante- 

 rior possession of the soil is attested by their subjuga- 

 tion, and by the name of the river Alpheus, evidently 

 derived from the Finnic Alf, a mountain torrent. 



The Hellenic tribes could not have been long in the 

 land before the great swarming commenced on the seas 

 and coasts of Eastern Europe. Besides the Cyclo- 

 peans, who left walls of their work from Van in 

 Persia westward to Sicily, and the Punes or Phoeni- 

 cians already mentioned, others, like the Cadmseans, 

 Etruscans, and Colchians, wandered along the shores, 

 from beneath the high lands of the present Abassia, 

 or came under Ionian Taurus to the Mediterranean, 

 all similarly bent upon forcing a landed possession for 

 themselves, and subsisting meantime as sea roving 

 pirates. The names of the Centaurs and Lapithae 

 indicate confusion in the Greek reminiscences; for 

 although they explained the first to have been horse- 

 men, it is more likely that they were ox-riders, such 

 as have been already mentioned in Africa and India, 

 and that their name has passed to a second invasion of 

 real cavalry. 



But the Thraco-Pelasgians, the Heraclidee, and 

 Achoei, seem to have been Celto Scythse, that is, like- 



