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NOTES TO PRECEDING SECTION. 



'EffTto Tov iravTos- The inner region, between the earth 

 and moon, the realm of the variable, is termed Uranos in 

 the Fragment. The middle portion, that of the unchange- 

 able orderly circulating planets, is exclusively termed Cos- 

 mos, after a very partial view. The exterior region, a fiery 

 one, is the Olympus. " If," says that profound diver into 

 the affinities of language, Bopp — " if we derive Kdayioq from 

 the Sanscrit root a'ud', purificari, as Pott has done (Etymol. 

 Researches, part i. pp. 39, 252), we must regard, in respect 

 to the sounds — 1. that the Greek k (in Koayios) has proceed- 

 ed from the palatal s, (expressed by Bopp with an s' and* 

 Pott with a p,) like ieKa, decern, Gothic taihun, from the 

 I'idian das^an; 2. that the Indian d' regularly corresponds 

 (Compar. Gramm. § 99) to the Greek d, whence we clearly 

 ascertain the relation o( Kocr/jioi (for koO^os) to the Sanscrit 

 root s'wd', whence Kadapog. Another Indian word for World 

 is g'agat (pronounce dschagat), properly meaning the going, 

 as a participle from g'a-gdmi, 1 go (from the root gd)." In 

 the inner circle of Hellenic etymology, Kdajxai is (according 

 to Etym. M. p. 532, 12) nearest connected with xa^o), or 

 rather Kaivvixai, whence KEKaoniyos or KetcaS^ieYos- Here- 

 with Welcker (eine Cretische Col. in Theben, p. 23) con- 

 nects the name Kd6ixoi, as in Hesychius kuSiios denotes a 

 Cretan suit of armour. When the Romans introduced the 

 philosophical technical language of Greece, they similarly 

 >!mployed the word mundus, originally""used like Koaixos for 

 female ornament, to express the world or universe. En- 

 nius appears to have been the first to venture on this inno- 

 fation : he says, in a fragment preserved to us by Macro- 



bius (Sat. vi. 2), in his strife with Virgil, "mundus cteli 

 vastus constitit silentio ;" like Cicero, " quem nos luceutem 

 mundum vocamus" (Timaeus s. de univ. cap. 10). The 

 Sanscrit root mond, whence Pott (Etym. Res. part i. p. 240) • 

 deduces the word mundus, unites both meanings of shining 

 and adorning. Loka signifies world and men in Sanscrit, 

 like the French monde, and, according to Bopp, is derived 

 from I6k, to see and illuminate : similarly the Slavonian 

 swjet (Grimm's German Gramm. vol. iii. p. 394) is light and 

 world. This word Welt, which the Germans now use, old 

 High German wtralt, old Saxon worold, Anglo-Saxon v^ruZrf, 

 originally denotes, according to Jacob Grimm, only " the 

 idea of time, sceculum (age of man), not the spacial mundus." 

 Amongst the Tuscans, the open mundus meant an inverted 

 dome, which turned its cupola towards the world below, 

 and imitated the heavenly vault. — (Otf. Miiller's Etruscans, 

 part ii. pp. 96, 98, 143.) In its narrower telluric significa- 

 tion, the world appears in the Gothic language as the sea- 

 {marei, meri) surrounded horizon, as merigard, a sea-gar 

 den. 



10 (20.) — Vide about Ennius, Leopold Krahner's acute 

 researches in his " Grundlinien zur Geschichte desVerfalls 

 der Romischen Staats-Religion," 1837, pp. 41—45. Proba- 

 bly Ennius did not draw from the Epicharmic pieces, but 

 from poems which went by the name of Epicharmus, and 

 were written according to his system. 



11 (p. 21.)— Gellius, Noct. Att. v. 18. 



12 (p. 23.)— Schelling's Bruno on the Divine and Natural 

 Principle of Things, p. 181. 



