THE Ex^STEEN ORIGIJr OP THE CELTS, 305 



according to Mr. Cox, connects with India in the cup of the Malee's 

 ■wife.^^^ Euboea had Amarjnthus, Hestisea, Tamynse, CEchalia and 

 Trycha. It was from Hestisea that Amphiclus went to Chios, where 

 he is said to have reigned after OEnopion.^^^ . Amphiclea of Phocis 

 contained an oracle of Bacchus. The Amycleans claimed kindred 

 with the people of Imhros and Lemnos. The latter island, like 

 LimnjB in Laconia, may have been an abode of the Hemanites, since 

 Hitzig supposes that Eiamene is the root of the name.*^" Lasharon 

 and Leophrah, the Greek Laphria and Leucophrys, are two Pales- 

 tinian forms illustrating such a prefix.^^^ Lemnos was famous for 

 the extinct volcano Moschylus. Imbros, with its deity Imbramus 

 and port ISlaulochus, was a Zimrite island. Lesbos contained a 

 Malea. Zimran and his son Mahalah were commemorated in Samos, 

 which Tembrion colonized, and where Imbrasus, Ampeius and Am- 

 philissus appeared.^^^ Melos and Thera I have already associated 

 with Mahalah and Darda. In Hhodes we find Camirus, and the 

 person of that name, as the grandson of Ochime and Hegetoria, I 

 have identified with Zimran, the son of Keturah. His father, 

 Cercaphus, must be Zerach or Kerak, whom I have supposed to be 

 the son of Achumai and stepfather of Zimran.^^^ 



The great Sarmatian territory contained the Cimmerians, or early 

 Cymri and Cimbri, who inhabited the Crimea and adjacent regions. 

 Their sea, which was the sea of Azor, they called Temeiinda, after 

 Zimran, and the Amalchian after their great mother Hammoleketh. 

 Among them were found such geographical names as Tamyraca, 

 Sagastene, Sittaceni, Agri, Acria, Apaturium, Ambenus, Taman, 

 Clialca, Treres and Tauri. Few traces of the Zimri appear in Moesia 

 and Dacia.^"^ In Illyria, however, we meet with Dsesitiates, Epicaria, 

 Absorus, Metulum, Dimalium, j3Emonia, Amantes, Clausula, Cylices, 

 Derrii, Daorisi and Turres. Etymologically Dimalium bears the same 

 relation to Mahalah that Dyrrhacium does to Rekem. Pannonia I 

 have shown in the former paper to have been a great Celtic centre. 



1-3 Aryan Mythology, i. 134 note. 

 1-' Pausau. vii. 4. 

 139 Die. Philistfer, 12S. 



'■■■' Josh. xii. 18 ; Micah i. 10. The latter is not apparent in the English translation. 

 1- - Strah. X. 2, 17 ; xiv. 1, 2. 

 ' -'■ Vide note 93. 



1'' Some, however, will be found in the geographical table at the close of the papcr- 

 llsdianumj a trace of Midian, appears in Mcesia. 



