LANGUAGE OF THE LYCIANS. 41 



on a certain class of monuments, and so different 

 from the language then spoken in Asia Minor, 

 was that of those colonists who supplanted the 

 Termilians or Solymians ; but, on the contrary, it 

 is to be inferred from the Iliad, that their lan- 

 guage was Greek, similar to the other nations with 

 whom, and against whom, they were joined in 

 warfare. This is clearly proved by the parley 

 between Glaucus and Diomed in front of the two 

 armies. ( B. vi. 150. ) Their religion was the 

 same also, as from Homer we learn that the 

 Lycians worshipped Apollo. (Iliad, b. iv. 150.) 



Herodotus is likewise silent as to the Lycians 

 speaking a language peculiar to themselves ; and 

 as he was a native of the neighbouring province 

 of Caria, and has shown himself to have been a 

 deep inquirer into the origin and language of the 

 people of every country he describes, it can 

 hardly be supposed that he would have overlooked 

 a fact so important in connexion with Lycian 

 History, had such been the case. 



His concurrence with ' Homer on this point 

 tends materially to weigh against the opinion that 

 there was a language distinct from the Greek and 

 peculiar to Lycia prior to the Persian invasion of 

 the country. 



