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Before dismissing the family of Sliammai, its connection with 

 Hebron, tlie son of Mareshah, may be briefly considered. The name 

 of Hebron occurs under at least foiir different forms, as Cebren, 

 Hyperion, Tembrion, and Cephalua, to which may be added the Latin 

 Tiberinus. Cebrene, in the Troade, was founded by a colony from 

 Cyme of ^olis, which was itself colonized by Locrians. Cyme is a 

 hard form of the name Shammai or Shema, as will appear in the 

 Latin connection. Strabo, among the many points of resemblance 

 in the geography of the Troade and Thrace, points out the existence 

 of a people in the latter country called the Cebrenii.^^^ According 

 to the same author, the Samians were originally Thracians. He 

 also makes Tembrion the founder of Samos."^ But Cephallenia, 

 named after Cephalus, the son of Deion, which latter name has 

 already been found to relate to the Onite family, was an Ionian 

 island, and was anciently called Samos. Not only do we find an ^nos 

 there as in Thrace, but three of its towns, Cranii, Taphos, and Same, 

 may fitly bear comparison with Korah, Tappuah, and Shema, among 

 the four sons of Hebron. Cephallenia is the same word as Chebron, 

 with the change of r to I, one of the commonest in etymology. A 

 daughter of Cebren is fabled to have borne the Onite name, Oenone. 

 Cephalus is made the husband of Aurora, who is herself the daughter 

 of Hyperion and Theia. Hyperion appears to be a name of Hebron 

 himself, and the Egyptologist will be at once struck with the simi- 

 larity of his wife's name to that of a famous Egyptian consort belono-- 

 ing to the family of Onnos. Aurora, however, according to other 

 accounts, was the daughter of Titan, a solar name that will yet 

 appear in relation to the same family, or of Pallas, who is Peleth, 

 the son of Jonathan, and brother of Zaza.^^* Finally, we learn that 

 Manto, called Daphne, who, according to analogy, should be the 

 daughter of Ahban, or at any rate his near relative, married Rhacius 

 or Tiberinus. In Tiberinus we cannot fail to see Hebron, and his 

 epithet Rhacius is doubtless an abbreviation of the name of his 

 father, Mareshah, who left such a form to the Arish. Similarly, 

 Merodach is called in many lists and notices, ^rodach. The common 



"2 strabo, xiii. 1,21. 



133 Id. xiv. 1, 3. 



134 The name of the daughter of Peleth is Hushim, from which the Sanscrit Ushas may 

 come. But that of her husband is Shaharaim or the dawn. It is to be observed that Ushas is 

 Sarama, in which we find a form of Shaharaim. Eos and Ushas and Hushim are doubtless the 



same, 



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