cOO ON MOUNT CAUCASttS. 



The wolds Lar, Lama, Parnd and Paid were once 

 ufed indiflerently in the weft, to fjgnify a penn or coop: 

 and Twine confined in them for the purpofe of fatten- 

 ing, were called from that circumftance Larioniy and 

 their flefh, Laridum, Perna and Pelafio. 



The word Lar or hciura^ is (till ufed in Gal'ic (Loar 

 or hombar), and in the diaie6t of the Cymric Llueru to 

 fignify relplendcnce, and probably from the lad are de- 

 rived the words glare, clear, &c. It is applied in Greek 

 to refplendent metals, as gold and filver ; alfo to the 

 Laurus, or laurel tree, facred to the author of refplend- 

 ence. Daphne, another name for the haurus, is deriv- 

 ed from the Saiifcrit Tapana, a-name of the Sun, as the 

 author of heat: for that place in Egypt*, called Tapana 

 in the Purdnas^ is called Taphnah by the feventy inter- 

 preters; and Dapbancs or Daphne, by Greek and Roman 

 authors. 



Though thefe mountains were in general called Par- 

 najfian, yet the appellation of Parnajfus or Parhdfa, be- 

 longed properly to that fingle mountain, on which flood 

 tiie Par'rafdla, or Parhdfa, of Atri or I dris ; this was, 

 1 fuppofe, his furamer habitation, for he had below a 

 Samach'h, in which, it is faid, he lived occafionally. 



It is declared in the Pwraw^j-, that when De'va-Na- 

 HusHA, always pronounced Deo-naush in converfa- 

 tion, and in the vulgar dialecis and obvioufly the Di- 

 on ysi us of the Greeks, conquered the world, he vifited 

 the feat of his grand anceftor Atri on the lefTer Me- 

 ru ; and being uneafv to fee it thus neglefted ; he fen t 

 for VisvA-CARMA, thc chicf enginccir of the gods, and 

 ordered him to build on the fpot a fuperb city, which 

 he called aft^r his own name Deva-Nahi/Jha-nagari^ 

 which is accurately rendered DionyfiopoHs in Greek, 



* AJtatick Refearches, vol. III. p. 383. 



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