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



meant "a military chief," he was right. It occurs joined with 

 fjyefiwv (II. 2, 487 : also, II. 7, 234, Koipave Acum/), and joined with 

 fiamXtvs (II. 2, 204) ; but is ordinarily used as lord or master, in 

 which sense the well known line of the Iliad, ovk ayaObv TroXvKOLpavLrj, 

 Its Koipavos coro) — gives two instances. It may be fairly taken on 

 these authorities as " equivalent to king ;" and I read No. 4, in 

 English therefore — 



Of the divine and branch-leading Kadaphes king.* 



Legend, No. 5, gives us the interesting spectacle of this pure Greek 

 word in vernacular contact with one which still forms part of the 

 spoken Hindee of this country — 



Of the king of kings Kanerkes king (or Lord) . 



It is interesting as part of the speculation which represents the 

 people over whom this dynasty ruled as being under military chiefs or 



* Prof. Wilson says (Ar. Ant. p. 358-9)—" With regard to the epithet, if it be 

 an epithet, Korano, it has already been observed that Mr. Masson considers it as 

 denoting "chief" or 4< military leader" at a time when Indo-Scythians had substi- 

 tuted military chiefs for kings. No authority is given for the meaning, and it 

 would be obviously incompatible with the use of the words Rao and Basileus with 

 which Korano is associated." This assertion the Professor makes, as he tells us in 

 the title-page, " under the authority of the Hon. the Court of Directors of the East 

 India Company :" it is against that of Hesiod (Works and Days, 261) and of Homer 

 as in the Hymn to Ceres, and of Herodotus and of Plutarch in their lives or notices 

 of Homer (v. Mure's Critical Hist. Gr. Lit. Vol. 2, appendix F.) " The title Basileus 

 frequently occurs in the Works and Days" says, Mr. M. " but in the plural number 

 and evidently denoting an aristocratical magistracy acting also as judges similar to 

 the Archons of Athens, or the Prytanes of Corinth and Corcyra." By historic 

 analogy we thus arrive at an idea of the political character of these princes of 

 Cabul and the Punjab who were civil judges (fidaiAeis) and military leaders 

 (Koipavoi) or lords, the feminine of which title Aristophanes uses for lady. 



To put an end to all doubt as to the value of these several titles, I append 

 Johannes Tzetzes the Grammarian's remark on an Orphic distich which he quotes 

 in his Commentary on Lycophron's Cassandria 523, " showing the difference of 

 these." 



eo-Tai S' av tls avr\p r] Kotpavos 7]k Tvpavvos 



t) /Jao-tXcvs o<» Tr}fJLOS is ovpavbv I'^erai atirvv. 



(Apud Lobekii Aglaophamum, lib. II. Sec. 3.) 



H. T. 



