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THE LIGIRIANS OR LLOGRIANS. * 



In the eastern Pyrenees there was another people equally 

 foreign to the Celtse, with affinities which appear to unite it 

 with the Finnic family ; and it was called the Ligurian and 

 Llogrian (the Llogrwys of the Celtoe) ; probably originally the 

 same as the Greek Locrian, which had three tribes in the 

 mountains of northern Greece, and the colony of Osolean 

 Locri in Italy. All these came from the north-east of the 

 Euxine, where they had been neighbors of the Achai. They 

 had a legend of their first king's son having been rescued 

 from a wolf by a serpent. Naupactis, the present Lepanto, 

 was their seaport ; but originally they had been savages, 

 clothed in the skins of wild beasts, and having their wives in 

 common, like the Vascones. They had names and terms 

 which were likewise found in the Tyrhenian. Already, before 

 the arrival of the Gauls, properly so called, this people having 

 extended between the Ceveffnes and the sea-coast, up to the 

 mountains of Spain, was encountered by other marine tribes, 

 when, leaving some clans in Corsica, in the Hieres Islands, 

 and among the Iberian families occupying the water Sycanist 

 (the lagoons along the coast), they retreated to the Cottian 



* They were acknowledged to he Hyperboreans by descent, since 

 Eschylus makes Prometheus instruct Hercules in the road towards the 

 garden of the Hesperides : he must pass Caucasus, then encounter the 

 fierce and innumerable Ligurians, and arrive at a high northern latitude. 

 His imagery looks like an extract from Finnic sagas, the Calewala, or 

 Scandinavian Edda. Bailley notices this passage, see Strabo Geogr. 



t Not unlikely a Teutonic word, Scckant, border of the sea. This term 

 would have no meaning, but for the lagoons along the coast, only separ- 

 ated from the sea by a continuous belt of shingle. Sicani, Sitaceni, and 

 Siculi, in this case, must mean maritime, coast men, water or sea men, 

 the same as C^ntii, in Britain. Yet these names again came from the 

 Euxine Bosphorus, and, according toPhilistus, cited by Dion. Halic, the 

 Siculi were of the same race as the Ligures, notwithstanding that Timeus 

 named them aborigines of Sicily. 



