450 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, to Tiryns (concerning whose origin any sound 
information is as light shining in darkness), 
whether there be any thing connected with its 
history likely to corroborate Pezrons opinion. 
All the writers by whom its builders are men- 
tioned, attribute its architecture to the identical 
race he has mentioned ; that is to say, to the 
Giants, under a different appellation of Cyclops : 
and this name was bestowed upon them in 
consequence of a custom which any Celtic 
helmet would illustrate, namely, that of having 
only one aperture for sight, in the middle of 
the visor. They came also from the country 
whence Pezron deduces his Titan colony ; from 
the southern provinces of PHRYGIA MAGWA, 
Caria, and Lycia\ In the next place occurs a 
circumstance of a more decisive nature, cal- 
culated to confirm the observations of that 
author in a very striking manner ; although by 
him unnoticed. It is found in an antient name 
of the Inachus, flowing between Tiryns and Argos. 
(1) " Casaubonus, ex Apollodoro, Cyclopas in Lyci& invenit, eteos 
in Graecia regnante Jobates habitasse ait. Jobates Bellerophonti fuit 
cosvus, qui tertia aetate ante bellum Trojanum extitit. Quo tempore 
Tiryns forsan fuit condita. Strabo Kd^ai quosdam ad Epidaurum 
ducit. Caria Lyciae proxima est, ergo Cyclopes Lycii cum coloniA 
Carum forsan Tiryntfiem advenerunt." Vid. Annot. in Strabon. Geoff. 
iib.\m. p. 540. ed.Oxon- 1807. 
