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1 Ciminus. 

 Si-Cimina. 



2 Cumerium Promontorium. 



gasum pelagus, ad Syriam montem Taurum, in Sabinis Canterium montem." " Have 

 not the characteristics of regions, both by sea and land, been derived from them ? 

 was not the iEgean Sea derived from Aiysg ? the mountain near Syria from Taugos ? 

 and that in the Sabini, from Cantherium, ' a beast of burden? 1 " Now, if it can be 

 shown that the learned antiquary is wrong in the first, it may be inferred that he 

 may be also mistaken with respect to the last. Now from Aieeu, " I rush violently, 

 I spring," came A/g, " a goat, a springing animal," and ai%, " impetuosity. 1 ' From 

 this second A/g came A/y/?, " an impetuous squall of wind,' 1 as may be seen in the 

 compound Kulaiyig, thus defined by Aristotle, " Twn ytftiiv fiiaiuv rrviufialuv nalaiyig 

 /mv sell itKMfha uvudiv rviflov i^aiprnT Of the violent winds, the xulaiyig is " a blast that 

 suddenly strikes from above." The iEgean is therefore not the Goat Sea, but the 

 Squally Sea, a name which, all who know it say,it well deserves. Hence also in Homer, 

 Atytoyog, the epithet of Holer's Jupiter, the Storm-restrainer, not the Goat-skin- 

 holder, as later commentators interpreted the word. Mount Taurus was not named 

 after " the Bull," but from Tor, one of the most universally diffused names for a 

 bold and aspiring peak. Canterius Mons, also, has nothing to do with a " gelding," 

 but was named, on the same principle as many other hills, from " Can," or Canus, 

 white, and Terra (originally Tera), land ; or, in the Cumrian form, from the same 

 words, " Cantir," from " Can," white, and Tir, land. 



1 Mons Ciminus was a long and lofty ridge in Etruria, the passage of which (at 

 least if we credit the annals of the Fabian family) formed an era in the history of 

 early Rome. I have already observed that the M of the Romans was more of a 

 vocal than consonantal letter. Hence, this same name of a hill, when applied to the 

 range of hills in the south-east of France, and written Kipsvog by the Greeks, and 

 Cebenna by the Latins, still keeps its original sound in the French Cevennes. 

 But in the language of the modern Cumri (see Owen's Diet.), Cevyn (pronounced 

 Ceven, pi. Cevenau), is " a ridge, as Cevyn o dir, a ridge of land, a long extended 

 mountain." From the same root comes Ceba, now Ceva, a town and district of 

 Piedmont ; the Cevin or Chevin Hills, in Yorkshire ; and the Cheviot Hills, called 

 formerly Chevy, the well-known ridge between Scotland and England. To these 

 may be added the ancient Si-Cimino, a mountain of Liguria. 



2 Cumerium Promontorium, now Monte Comero, a bold headland in Picenum, 

 still commemorating the possession of that district by the Cumri, under their true 

 name, and a record as lasting as the Mont-Gomeri, in France, and the Comri Isles 

 in the Frith of Clyde, probably in all cases the last retreat of the bravest spirits of 

 a vanquished district. 



