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goddess revered at Samos, may denote simply thc> 

 Lady, and be the same as Hertha, Ertha, or Orsiloche 

 in Tauris. There are the names of Circe (Kirke), anc 

 Falaces, the double divinity and pillar gods of a grea 

 number of nations ; with many others, all derived froir, 

 Getic or Teutonic dialects. The Romans, properh 

 speaking, did not compose an homogeneous race. 

 They were, still more than the Greek people, a com- 

 pound of many tribes, it is true, more or less remotely 

 allied, but still concentrated on the Tiber from dis- 

 tant quarters, the result of distinct colonies and suc- 

 cessive arrivals. Among these, the so-called Trojan 

 basis of the Roman population is not more authentic 

 than that of Antenor on the coast of the Adriatic, 

 though popular legends are seldom without some basis 

 of truth; and that Asia Minor contributed several 

 tribes of migrators to different parts of Italy, can 

 scarcely be disputed. 



Of all the Roman nobility, the Julian family alone 

 was considered to be of indigenous origin; the rest 

 were Pelasgi, Etruscans, Sabines, Siculi, and others 

 from the hills, whose parentage is unknown. Although 

 they were mixed with fair-haired tribes, the aspect, 

 profile, and structure of the Roman, has greater 

 resemblance to the Persic aquiline featured race than 

 to a Celto Scythic type, notwithstanding that the 

 Arabian name for the people, probably derived from 

 the appearance of the majority of the foreign garrisons 

 in the eastern empire, in general composed of nor- 

 thern levies, was Beni Asfar, that is, fair-haired. " as 



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