TIRYNS. 449 
serve only as an amusing topic of research, will CHAP. 
J vin. 
perhaps be gratifying to the studious Reader. __ T - - 
In tracing the march of the Celtte out of the 
regions of Upper Asia, he brings a colony, 
under the name of Titans, from Phrygia into 
Peloponnesus, some years before the death of 
the patriarch Abraham*. These men, owing to 
their astonishing power and prowess, and the 
mighty works whereby they became signalized, 
he believes to have been the Giants and Titans 
of the Septuagint version of Isaiah* and of 
Judith* ; men who became afterwards the omni- 
potent and sovereign gods of Greece and Rome ; 
owing to a common practice among the 
Antients, of deifying their deceased monarchs. 
He finds, moreover, the names of all their 
Princes in the Celtic language". In a work of 
o o 
this kind, we must leave such profound re- 
searches to the investigation of antiquaries and 
philologists. Let us only see, with reference 
(3) " 1 have shewn, in treating of those princes who ruled over the 
Tttans, that they were the contemporaries of Abraham, and even of 
his father 7'eraA." Pezron's Antiq. of Nations, /A 185. Lond. 1809. 
See also p. 83. 
(4) r/yavTif 01 S^atvif -rtil yr.i- Isaiah, xiv. 9. 
(5) Judith, lib. vi. ver. 6, and?, v'ui Tirana*. 
(6) Pezrnn's Antiq. of Nations. Prcf. p. xviii. Also B. I. c. 14. 
p. 111. B. II. c.l. p. 185, &c. Lond. 1809. 
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