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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt:... in placing it on the confines of Thesprotia and Molossia, and beneath Mount Tomarus. Dr. Holland and M. Pouqueville place it near Yanina, Mr. Hawkins (Walpole 2. 473.) at Paramythia. The Dodona of Homer (II. /3', 750.) appears to be in the north of Thessaly; but a concurrence of testimony leads us to regard Thesprotia as the earliest seat of the Hellenes, and therefore the site of the original Dodona. viro friyiji wej. "under an oak of native growth." The pr)yos is, according to Dr. Sibthorp, the quercus esculus, whose acorns were supposed to have nourished men before agriculture was known. Virg. Georg. 1.147. "quum jam glandes et arbuta sacra Deficerent sylvse, et victum Dodona negaret." apipnroXevovoav ipov. SeeMatth. 412. rrjv 'EAXaa yXuiooav. To have been consistent, our author should have said the Pelasgic tongue. Again, in the beginning of the fifty-seventh section, he attributes the n&mePeleiades, which is Greek, to the Dodonaeans, who at the arrival of the Egyptian fugitive must have been Pelasgians. So 8. 44. he says of the Athenians, eizl IleXaayiSf iyovTuiv rrjv vvv EWart Kaeofiivr)v iaav YleXaayoi, ovropa'Cofxevoi Kpavaoi: but Kpavaos is a Greek word; and thus all the evidence which he furnishes, is in op position to his own view of the Pelasgic as a barbarous language. Sect. 57. Sidrt (idpfiapoi raav. Theocr. 15. 87. iravaaaff (3 cSu'oravoi avavvra KwriXXoHrai Tpvyoves, says the Alexandrian to the Sicilian women whose Doric speech grated on his ears. See Phil. Mus. 1. 612., other instances of a barbarous speech assimilated to the language of birds. 'H pavrrjir)--ira.puTrauu rvy. iovaai. The similarity probably consisted in this, that the oracle was communicated to the priest by the god himself, without the interve...