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and Pedicea ; Bceotia lias Holroia, Eleon, Delium, Potnia, and 

 Peteon, with Orchomenos for Rakem, and Glial cis on the opposite 

 coast of Euboea for Gilead. There was also an Elymnium in Euboea. 

 On the Isthmus we find Chalcis, Piraeus, Saron, and Olmise. 

 Attica is fuller, in Chollidte, Prasise, Piraeus, Alunus, Halimusia, 

 Erasmus, and Aphidna. Peloponnesus has a few traces of Celtic 

 occupation. In Arcadia the Celadon, the Parrhasii, Elymia, and 

 Orchomenos must refer to Gilead, Peresh, Ulani, and Eakem. 

 Argolis contains another Celenderis, reprxlucing that of Cilicia, a 

 Saron, an Elajus, a Troezen, and an Ai^aclinseus Mens. In Elis, a 

 region which mythology intimately connects with ^tolia, we find 

 Chalcis and the Cladeus, with Buprasium, a Bebrycian form of 

 Peresh. Messenia furnishes Pharis and Anion ; and Lacoiiia con- 

 tained Calathion, Prasia3, Brysiae, Pharis, Delium, and Pitane. 

 Among islands, the Ca.lydiife, and Celadussa or Pheneia of the 

 Cyclades, were Gileadite, while Paros and Syros of the latter group, 

 evidently received their names from the descendants of Peresh and 

 Sheresh. Peparethus and Solymnia, off the Thessalian coast, seem 

 to have been peopled by the Peresh and Ulam family. In Crete we 

 find Prasus, Olus and Pytna. 



Mcesia was largely Saruiatian, but in the east, Gallatis, Trosmi 

 (Trocmi) and Bizoiie (Byzantium) indicate Celtic occupation. Fui-- 

 ther west on the Danube, however, we meet with Almum and 

 Bononia, setting forth Ulam and Bedan. The modern name of 

 Bononia, which is but a restoration of its original designation, is 

 Bodon, and thus we are furnished with a solution of the difiiculties 

 presented by the word Pannonia, which is preeminently the land of 

 the Bedanites. All writers are agreed that Pannonia's most ancient 

 population was Celtic.^^ There we find Coletiani. It contained a 

 lake Perso, reproducing the lakes of Persis and Hyrcania, and on it 

 TJlmum named after Ulam was situated ; while Bassiana near at 

 hand, by its modern name Bodonhely, justifies the association of the 

 Ulyrian Bassiana with Bedan. The river Parisus keeps up the 

 Peresh connection ; and another Ulmi and another Bassiana in the 

 south proclaim the presence of the Ulam and Bedan line of his 

 family. Meanwhile Rakem appears, Hyrcanian-like, in the Hercu- 

 niates, a mountain race, and north of these is the Volcese Palus, on 

 which Tricciana recalls Trichonium on the Trichonian Lake of ^tolia. 



SI Vide Strab., vii. 5, 2 seq. 



