975 
have no remedy, fhort of difmeounting, 
except, perhaps, thar of telling truth, 
which would come to the fame point. 
Iam, fir, yourmoft obedient, 
Ofober 143 1790. ot Oe 
a 
To ibe Editor of tbe Monibly Magazine. 
SERS. 5 
i the Magazine for laft month, I pro- 
mifed to give, occafionaily, fome ex- 
amples for illuftrating the nature of the 
extraordinary coincidence between. the 
mythologic names of the ancient world, 
as explained by Mr. Bryant and others, 
and the import of words of fmilar found 
zn the Welth language. Conceiving, 
therefore, that the fubftance of the fol- 
Sowing parallel will induce fome atten- 
tion tothe fubjet, I beg leave that it 
may be introduced to the notice of your 
readers. 
Exivadls from Bryani’s Mythology, 
(4 pages 251, 392- 
“ Myrmipon. This term was.not 
enly a projer zame, but alfo fignified an 
Ani or Pifmire : ; which gave occafion to 
much fable. Now Mur, Mar, Mor, how- 
ever varied, fignified of old the ea and 
iMur-Medon denotes Maris. Demir num, the, 
great lord of the ocean. .it is a title 
which relates tothe perion who was faid 
to have fir? confirudied a fhip, and to have 
efcaped the waters. He was the fame as 
Deucalion*,, whom they imagined to 
have refided in the fame parts, after he 
had been driven by a flood to Meunt 
wEta, The Myrmeidons are fometimes re- 
refented as the children of Alacus¢ : 
amd are faid to have firft inhabited the 
wland of Aéginat. It is mentioned of 
this perfonage, that having foft all his 
peopie By a public calamity, he requefted 
of Jupiter, tHatithe axis of the. iliand 
might become mez; which with was ac- 
cordingly granted to him. The Myrzi- 
dans are faidto have fu? confructed fhips, 
aud from when the avi was made known to 
the wordd.”’ 
——— 
vol. 14. 


* The etymology of this name is not given 
by Mr. B. therefore’no great firefs fhould be 
Jaid upon any thing {aid about it from the Welthh ; 
but it is fomewhat odd, that Deursliann in that 
Yanguage, is a plural word, implying literally, 
the gencrating pairs; fo ‘Liv Devoe is the 
food of rhe generating fairs. 
+ dic, the feeming fource; the fea, eicus, 
eons ta the fea, Welih; plural Evcion, 
the Ocean. 
t Egin, {eed or vegetation, juft {pringing out 
wf the ground. Welh, 
Antiquity of the Welfh Language. 
[Nov 4 
Words from the Welfh. * 
“Mor ineans, abftrattedly, what moves 
or that is active : in its appropriation, it 
is the name for the Sea, of which Moros 
is the plural; alfo' an Azz or Pifmirey 
plural Moricn ; and it denotes time, 
though in this fenfe, it is moft generally 
joined with fome’ difcriminating prefix. 
«* Myr, the aggregate plural « of Mor, 
implying abftractedly what are ia conti- 
nual motion, flutuation, or aétivity ; and 
appropriately the Flaids, or the Seas, of 
which the double plural Myrex is formed, 
implying feveral fluids or feas;—alfo ies 
or emmets, of which the double plural 
is Myrion, implying feveral aggregates, 
or hills of pifmires*. Mup, a M0UC, 
OL removing 3 a conveying ; the moving of 
houfekeld goods; alfo, the goods fo care 
ried, or the moveables. From this word 
two forts of plurals may be ufed; as, 
Mudoz, Moveables; and Muden, or Mu- 
dion, thofe that move. . 
“* MuDO, to move; loremove; to con- 
vey from place to place; to ae a. 
place of abode. 
‘< By joining Myr to Mud+, we have 
Myrmud; which abftraétedly tranilated, 
is——adtive conveyance; but according 
to appropriation—fea conveyance; and 
thence comes regularly, the plural ‘Myr- 
mudozt perks sary hke ee 
don, or 
&o by the feas.” 
Any obfervation is needlefs from me, 
upon the furprifing analogy difcovered in 
the foregoing comparifon: J therefore 
conclude at puetent, 
Your’s, &c. 
Nov. 4, 1796. 

MEIRION. 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
CoNCERNING SOME APOLOGISTS OF 
HERO-WORSHIP. 
OTICE is due to one faét, as an in- 
telle¢tual phenomenon of dificult 
explanation, that many of our moft learned 
philofophers, of thofe who were moft 
familiar with the claifical writings of 
the Greeks and Romans, of thal who 

* Morgrug and Myrdwyn, are likewife 
terms for the Ants ; both meaning literally a 
hill; ox heap that is oll in aéfivity: and it is 
fingulor, that the words Peues Myr, imply the 
fame thing, and found juft like Pijmire; the 
word Ant means—they are gcing, Or movitig, 
and Ymmod, which is foundes very like Emmet, 
implies Gael Motion. 
+ The Welfh letter 2, las exactly the found 
of the Englth i in My eee fin, and the 
like, 
had 

