9G M. L. EOUSE^ B.L.;, ON THE TEDIGREE OF THE NATIONS. 



We have now completed the circuit back to Thrace, and have 

 thus linked the settlements of the great family of Tliiras as far 

 west as Italy with its earlier seats in the Balkan Peninsula and 

 its still earlier haunts in Asia Minor. 



We can trace its previous migration a stage or two further 

 back. About 220 miles due east of the Lydian Tyrrha, or say 

 210 miles by the high road, stood Tyriaeum in Lycaonia. And 

 with this we may compare the fact that the Cabalians, who 

 occupied a small state just east of Caria were Maeonians, and 

 that in Xerxes' army they had the same equipment as the 

 Cilicians. Does not this point to near relationship, indicating 

 that at all events a portion of the people who dwelt in Cilicia 

 (doubtless the mountaineer portion, for the Caballi were moun- 

 taineers) belonged to the Maeonian, or Tyrsenian, or Thirasian 

 race ? Again, why is fclie chain of the Taurus Mountains to have 

 its name derived from the Aramean Tnr, a high mountain ? The 

 Arameans proper never extended up to the range ; and the 

 Assyrians and Babylonians, who in turn did so for a couple of 

 hundred years in all, only touched it for one-fourth of its 

 length ; while, long before they achieved any permanent 

 conquest there, they must have in their correspondence with 

 other nations have read and written the name of the ran2:e 

 hundreds of times — an older name given to it by some nation 

 that dwelt along its slopes. I submit that, as we have seen the 

 Tyr- of Tyras change to Taur- in Europe, so did it in Asia ; and 

 that, since various tokens point to the original family of Tyras 

 as having inhabited and moved along the Taurus in the earliest 

 times, the range was called after the patriarch Tiras, when the 

 other families of Japhet and Shem Ibund him and the early 

 generations of his descendants building their huts and grazing 

 their flocks upon its slopes. 



It is possible that a familiar figure in the Greek Heroic Age 

 is that of Tiras or Thiras himself. According to different 

 authors, the blind seer Teiresias had the privilege granted him 

 from heaven " to live either through seven or through nine 

 generations ; while he acted so prominent a part in the mythical 

 history of Greece, that there is scarcely any event with which 

 lie is not connected."* 



We will now pass beyond Italy, and see whether we can 

 trace the progeny of Tiras in Western Europe. AVe have 

 already pointed out an important Taurasia in Italian Liguria : 

 in Gallic Liguiia we have a place called by Pliny f Tarusco,. 



* Smith Diet. Myth. "TeirCsias" j cf. p. £0, Titaresios. t III, v (iv). 



