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dread of being fwallowed up by the oriental colonies which 

 were from time to time arriving in Greece, engaged all the 

 petty dynafties in the neighbourhood to folicit admittance into 

 that confederacy. At firfl this affociation confifted only of 

 twelve petty ftates, and reached from the fouthern confines of 

 modern Theflaly to the Ifthmus of Corinth. When the Dores, 

 who had been included in the Amphiclyonic league, and had 

 confequently adopted the name of Hellenes, fell into Pelopon- 

 nefus, and made themfelves matters of the greatefl part of that 

 country, they communicated their name to their new fubjedts ; 

 fo that, in procefs of time, the original name Graii was aban- 

 doned and forgotten, and all the tribes of the Greeks became 

 Hellenes ; a name which they retained as long as the nation ex- 

 ifted. Hence, in procefs of time, all mankind came to be di- 

 vided into 'E\X7ive$ %ui BugGugoi, " Greeks and Barbarians." 



END OF THE DISSERTATION. 



APPENDIX concerning THE AMPHICTYONES. 



THOUGH I have omitted the explication of the council of 

 the Amphictyones in the body of the preceding differta- 

 tion, in order to avoid prolixity, I (hall here add a few ftric- 

 tures upon that fubjecl. 



It was obferved in the foregoing paper, that the Greeks a- 



fcribed the inftitution of this council to Amphictyon. This 



Prince, according to them, was the fon of Deucalion, and 



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