PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE lONIANS. 5G1 



accordance with the inductive reasoning that has given to Othniel an 

 Onite princess in marriage. She is also called Pallanto and Palatua. 

 I have already thought it probable that Othniel was united to a 

 daughter of Jonathan, who might very properly bear a name similar 

 to that of her brother, or at least be commemorated by such a name. 

 Pallas, the son of Evander, is said to have been killed by Turnus, 

 and he, as the son of Faunus, Pan or Ahban, must be Harum, the 

 father of Aharhel. The only other geographical connection of 

 Peleth to which I direct attention is one already alluded to. Pola, 

 the town of fugitives spoken of by Callimachus in connection with 

 the Argonautic expedition, is undoubtedly a transplanted Beth-Palet, 

 the house of flight, from the south of Palestine.^"^ It is worthy of 

 note that the Absyrtides, including Absorus, are near at hand, and 

 that Epidaurus, like them commemorating Abishur, T^ith Meleta or 

 Meleda, similarly commemorating his son Molid, are situated along 

 the same coast. 



Turning v/ith these memorials to the family of Shammai, we find 

 his own name in Cameses, whom Macrobius gives as a king of Italy 

 and contemporary of Janus."^ Camasenus and Camasena are also 

 made the bi'other, and sister or wife of Janus. I have already men- 

 tioned their fish relations in etymology with Cannes, An, and other 

 representatives of Onam. The initial S or Sh, of Shammai, is in 

 their case rendered by what was, at least in the Greek kamesenes, a 

 hard sound, just as ^olian Cyme i-epresented a softer Samos. Cumse 

 is an Italian geographical name, reproducing Samos and Cyme. It 

 was a Greek colony, and its founder is called Hippocles, who must, 

 I think, stand for Abichail, the wife of Abishur, she being, as Amal- 

 thsea or Capella, the Sibyl of Cumse. Apollo was appropriately wor- 

 shipped at Cum^. I have not found Abishur appearing with any 

 prominence in Italy and its legends, unless it be as Jupiter Pater 

 and Lapis. "■^ His wife, Juno, has frequently been associated with 

 Janus, and may help to point out the connection of the king of the 



"' Callimachus a%iud Sfcrab. 1. 2, 40. 



1*6 Macrobii Saturnalia, 1. 7. 



1*7 Janus is eaUed Janus-pater. In the Indian mythology Dyauspttar connects with the 

 family of Indra. Tyr, the German sun god, has been made the same as Zeus and Jove by 

 ■Grimm ; and both Indra and Tjt will appear in the sequel to be of the family of Onam. It 

 seems strange to find Absyrtus the unfortunate and the king of the gods in the same person, 

 but the same reasoning which would leal i,o the rejection of tlie evidence would remove Julius 

 Csesar from the page of history, and deny that the enslaver of Israel, who was drowned in the 

 •Red Sea, was made a god during his life-time by the Egyptians. 



