140 Translation of some Greek legends of the [No. 2. 



Scythian and the Sassanian, the endless tribes whom the Hindoos and 

 Persians term Saka and the Greeks %kv6cli* (v. Wilson, Ar. Ant. C. III. 

 p. 132, 4to ed.) have swept from the more accessible tracts of the 

 lands they each in their turn sojourned in upon their way to India, 

 the language and the race of their predecessors, after a partial adop- 

 tion of the one, and an imperfect subjection of the other. It remains 

 yet to be seen whether, safely removed from the high-way of nations, 

 the descendants of those who were for a time tinctured with the tastes 

 of the most civilized people of antiquity, may not be found extant, still 

 perhaps retaining traces of the European stock they came of (v. El- 



* The loose and general use of the word by the Greeks as applicable indiffer- 

 ently to many nations, explains many doubtful passages in Herodotus, Strabo and 

 other writers, and is nowhere so definitely asserted as in the gossiping chronicle 

 of the Byzantine, Johannes Tzetzes, Chiliad. XIII. 



Koi tovto yivoxTKe KaXws f*r)<5e ere \av6avera), 



&s acrfiaayol Kai a\avol nal ad/ccu re /c&i So/cat, 



Oi pws Kat (ravpofxdrai re uat oi itiiws (TkvQou, 



Kal irav 6tt6(Tov irpocroiicov sQvos iruoais Bopeov 



KoivwS KaToi>ofi(L£ovTcu cicvdai, ffKvduv 777 /cA7}<r«. 



Or in English — 

 And this know well, and let it not be secret from thee, 

 That Asbasgee, and Alans, and Sakse too, and Dakge, 

 The Rhos, and Sauromatse also and the Scythians proper, 

 And every whatso nation dwelling near the blasts of Boreas, 

 Generally are called Scythian, by the name of Scythians. 



The Dakse are the Dadikse of Herodotus (III. 91) the Dase (Ta hi a. Remusat, 

 Nouvelles Melanges Asiatiques. 1.205, apud Wilson) classed with the Gandarii 

 (Herod. VII. 66, apud Wilson) or Candaharees, allied with the Getae, the Jats, or 

 Jats of India, driven south with them by the Huns, the " Dacus missilibus melior 

 sagittis" of Horace (Od. III. 6.) &c. &c. and Scythians notwithstanding ! It ap- 

 pears difficult to comprehend however the nomad migratory masses of mankind 

 can be traced, distinguished, or even classified ; but there does seem a chance of 

 studying the question on the frontier of India, upon which many of these tribes, or 

 their remnants, were impelled in succession. To have ascertained their local pre- 

 sence at any point is important. It would be idle enough to attempt identification 

 of the Dacians of Trajan's column with the Ta hi a of the Chinese. 



I may add that the " Rhos" of Tzetzes are the ' Pcoj of the LXX. version of Ezek. 

 xxxviii. 2, 3. It is the name given to the Russians by the Byzantine writers of the 

 tenth century. See Gesenius's Disquisition in v. t#N*"). H. T. 



