• Strabo, p. 62 1.
f The following passage in Strabo deserves particular attention : — " But almost every
person agrees that the Pelasgi, an ancient people, predominated throughout the whole of
Greece, and particularly among the ^olians of Thessaly ; and Ephorus is of opinion that,
though by origin Arcadians, they embraced a military life, and engaging many people to
associate with them they conferred their name on all, and obtained great celebrity, not only
among the Greeks but among the other nations where they chanced to come : for even in
Crete were colonies of them settled, as Homer sings ; since Ulysses thus speaks to
Penelope, —

^^ ^ Crete awes the circling waves, a fruitful soil !
And ninety cities crown the sea-bom isle :

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92 THE GREEK LANGUAGE.
