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ADDENDA.
Page X. " AuTo^flovsc." The feeling of national vanity which this expression im-
plies, is strongly attested by the following passage from the Panegyrica of Isocrates,
" General consent allows this city of ours to be the most ancient, the largest and the
most celebrated in the world. Honourable as this commencement is, what follows is
still more to our glory : for this land has become our habitation, not by the expul
sion of others, nor by being found empty of tenants, nor were we a mixed collec-
tion from other nations ; but so honourable and noble has been our birth,
that the land which gave us being is that which has ever been in our possession,
we being really indigenous, and able to address our city by those names which most
mark consanguinity ; for none but we among the Greeks are entitled to call the same
spot their nurse, their country, and their mother."—Isoc. p. 58. ed. Lange. Vid.
Mitchell's Aristophanes, " The fVasps." Ausonii clar. urb. 10. Justin. 2, 6, 3. Cic.
pro Flacc. c. 26. How weak a foundation this claim rested upon in reality may be
seen in the addenda to page 5. Su'das (voc. Avroyjcvi;) classes the people of iEgina
and the Arcadians along with the Athenians, " Adtc^ovsc <f« Apx.<tSi; k*i Aiyivmtti,
Kit A&1ivzi01 tx.xKGvvro.,y
"tstt/^s." The t6tt<5 of the Greeks corresponds rather with the cicada, of the
Latins, than with our grasshopper. The cicada has a rounder and shorter body
than the grasshopper, and utters a much louder cry. This cry seems to have had
something pleasing to the Grecian ear. vid. Horn II. 3. 151.—Suidas, in making men-
tion of this insect, assigns two reasons for its being a national emblem among the Athe-
nians : one of these is mentioned in the text, by Potter, the other relates to the mu-
sical properties of the insect's note, (" fjuvauot y*p o t6tt/|,"j the Athenians being
themselves fond of music (juovo-uoi).
Page 2. " For the primitive Athenians were named Iones and laones.'' Dr.
Blomfield, in his remarks on Matthias's Greek Gr. gives the following historical
sketch. " Hellen, the son of Deucalion, reigned in Phthia, between the Peneus and
Asopus. His younger sons went to seek for settlements elsewhere. Dorus fixed him-
self near Parnassus ; Xuthus went to Attica, and married the daughter of Erectheus,
by whom he had two sons, Acheeus and Ion. Achreus having committed an accidental
homicide, passed into Laconia; and the inhabitants of that country were called from
him \chsei, till the return of the Heraclidas. Ion led an Attic colony into the Pelo-
ponnesus, where they settled between Elis and Sicyonia. He was afterwards recalled
to Attica, routed the Thracians under Eumolpus, was invested with a part of the
government, and gave his name to the Athenians. He did not, however, succeed
Erectheus, whose crown devolved upon Cecrops. The Ionians from the Peloponnesus
returned to Attica in the reign of Melanthus, and after the death of Codrus, Nileus
led them into Asia Minor." To this may be added, that as these colonists began
earlier than the mother country the march of cultivation and refinement, the terms,
Ionia, Ionians, and Ionic were used by way of eminence, to denote their new settle-
ments, themselves, and their dialect; and finally were exclusively appropriated to them
The mother-countr, henceforth took the name of Attica, and the inhabitants were
termed Attics, and Athenians.
Page 3. " This is not Peloponnesus,", &c. This pillar was erected by the common
consent of the Ionians and Peloponnesians, to put an end to their disputes about
their boundaries, and it continued till the reign of Codrus. It was then demolished
by the Heraclidse, who had made themselves masters of the territory of Megara,
which thereby passed from the Ionians to the Dorians. This inscription was subse-
quently imitated by Hadrian, upon the monument which he erected between the old
and new city of Athens, as mentioned in the 23d page of this work.
" Plato reports," &c. This is merely mentioned by Plato, in order to gratify the
national vanity of the Athenians, and rests on no solid foundation whatever. He
makes the Athenians to have been the only nation of Europe who made successful re-
sistance against the warriors of his fabled Atlantis.
Page 4. The Parian marbles say nothing of the deluge of Ogyges, and that fa-
mous chronicle begins with the arrival of Cecrops into Greece. According to St.
Augustine, the deluge happened under Phoroneus, the second king of Argos, and he
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Page X. " AuTo^flovsc." The feeling of national vanity which this expression im-
plies, is strongly attested by the following passage from the Panegyrica of Isocrates,
" General consent allows this city of ours to be the most ancient, the largest and the
most celebrated in the world. Honourable as this commencement is, what follows is
still more to our glory : for this land has become our habitation, not by the expul
sion of others, nor by being found empty of tenants, nor were we a mixed collec-
tion from other nations ; but so honourable and noble has been our birth,
that the land which gave us being is that which has ever been in our possession,
we being really indigenous, and able to address our city by those names which most
mark consanguinity ; for none but we among the Greeks are entitled to call the same
spot their nurse, their country, and their mother."—Isoc. p. 58. ed. Lange. Vid.
Mitchell's Aristophanes, " The fVasps." Ausonii clar. urb. 10. Justin. 2, 6, 3. Cic.
pro Flacc. c. 26. How weak a foundation this claim rested upon in reality may be
seen in the addenda to page 5. Su'das (voc. Avroyjcvi;) classes the people of iEgina
and the Arcadians along with the Athenians, " Adtc^ovsc <f« Apx.<tSi; k*i Aiyivmtti,
Kit A&1ivzi01 tx.xKGvvro.,y
"tstt/^s." The t6tt<5 of the Greeks corresponds rather with the cicada, of the
Latins, than with our grasshopper. The cicada has a rounder and shorter body
than the grasshopper, and utters a much louder cry. This cry seems to have had
something pleasing to the Grecian ear. vid. Horn II. 3. 151.—Suidas, in making men-
tion of this insect, assigns two reasons for its being a national emblem among the Athe-
nians : one of these is mentioned in the text, by Potter, the other relates to the mu-
sical properties of the insect's note, (" fjuvauot y*p o t6tt/|,"j the Athenians being
themselves fond of music (juovo-uoi).
Page 2. " For the primitive Athenians were named Iones and laones.'' Dr.
Blomfield, in his remarks on Matthias's Greek Gr. gives the following historical
sketch. " Hellen, the son of Deucalion, reigned in Phthia, between the Peneus and
Asopus. His younger sons went to seek for settlements elsewhere. Dorus fixed him-
self near Parnassus ; Xuthus went to Attica, and married the daughter of Erectheus,
by whom he had two sons, Acheeus and Ion. Achreus having committed an accidental
homicide, passed into Laconia; and the inhabitants of that country were called from
him \chsei, till the return of the Heraclidas. Ion led an Attic colony into the Pelo-
ponnesus, where they settled between Elis and Sicyonia. He was afterwards recalled
to Attica, routed the Thracians under Eumolpus, was invested with a part of the
government, and gave his name to the Athenians. He did not, however, succeed
Erectheus, whose crown devolved upon Cecrops. The Ionians from the Peloponnesus
returned to Attica in the reign of Melanthus, and after the death of Codrus, Nileus
led them into Asia Minor." To this may be added, that as these colonists began
earlier than the mother country the march of cultivation and refinement, the terms,
Ionia, Ionians, and Ionic were used by way of eminence, to denote their new settle-
ments, themselves, and their dialect; and finally were exclusively appropriated to them
The mother-countr, henceforth took the name of Attica, and the inhabitants were
termed Attics, and Athenians.
Page 3. " This is not Peloponnesus,", &c. This pillar was erected by the common
consent of the Ionians and Peloponnesians, to put an end to their disputes about
their boundaries, and it continued till the reign of Codrus. It was then demolished
by the Heraclidse, who had made themselves masters of the territory of Megara,
which thereby passed from the Ionians to the Dorians. This inscription was subse-
quently imitated by Hadrian, upon the monument which he erected between the old
and new city of Athens, as mentioned in the 23d page of this work.
" Plato reports," &c. This is merely mentioned by Plato, in order to gratify the
national vanity of the Athenians, and rests on no solid foundation whatever. He
makes the Athenians to have been the only nation of Europe who made successful re-
sistance against the warriors of his fabled Atlantis.
Page 4. The Parian marbles say nothing of the deluge of Ogyges, and that fa-
mous chronicle begins with the arrival of Cecrops into Greece. According to St.
Augustine, the deluge happened under Phoroneus, the second king of Argos, and he
97