10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PELASGI»
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Irish-English Dictionary
Rerum Atticarum scriptores de Pelasgis tradidere Atlienis fuisse Pelasgos, qui
cum, in-star avium quo sors vocaret hue atque illuc errabundi commearant, pro
Pelasgi, Pelargi, i. e. Ciconice vocarentur ab Atheniensibus. It is from this
unsettled ...
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An Enquiry Into The History Of Scotland Preceding The Reign ...
more upon so very interesting and curious a subject. Herodotus, Thucydides,
Strabo, assert the Pelasgi to have come from Thessaly into Greece ; and
Thessaly was anciently esteemed a part of Thrace, so that the Pelasgi were
Thracians, that ...
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Primitive history, from the Creation to Cadmus
The Rhodanim are however called Dodanim, and some more probably esteem
Dodona their place of settlement : Duw Dun signifies God's hill. They were
Dodonæi afterwards called Pelasgi. Hesiod says Dodona was the feat of the
Pelasgi.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, ...
PELASGICUM (Pausanias, Pliny); the north wall of Athens ; so called from the
builders, the Pelasgi. There was an execration pronounced on any that should
build houses under this wall, because the Pelasgi, while dwelling there, entered
into ...
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The Journal of the British Archaeological Association
Greece ; and much confusion might be avoided by substituting, on every
occasion, the indefinite term " wanderers" for " Pelasgi". Of these foreign settlers,
one tribe, the CEnotrii, are reputed to have come to Italy from Arcadia ; and these
...
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The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, ...
The Pelasgi, who were associated with the aborigines, were ovcrpowered by
their barbarian neighbours, so that only a few remained among the aborigiires,
the greatest part having been dispersed in Greece, and among the Barbarians.
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The nine books of the History of Herodotus, tr. from the ...
It is true that I speak after the report of the Egyptians themselves ; and those gods
of whose names they profess themselves to be ignorant must,1 in my opinion,
have received their appellation from the Pelasgi, Neptune excepted; for the name
...
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Focalóir gaoidhilge-sax-bhéarla: or, An Irish-English dictionary
or, An Irish-English dictionary John O'Brien. Learned Author advances, « that
Pelasgi was the first & general name « for all the original Settlers*'. Certainly, he
could not have devised -a more concise & effectual method to comprehend within
...
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Horae Pelasgicae Part the First: Containing an Inquiry Into ...
Containing an Inquiry Into the Origin and Language of the Pelasgi, Or Ancient
Inhabitants of Greece; with a Description of the Pelasgic Or Aeolic Digamma as
Represented in the Various Inscriptions in which it is Preserved; and an Attempt
to ...
The etymology of the name Pelasgi he gives up entirely, confessing that he
cannot allow it to come from the Peleg of Genesis. That they brought a foreign
language with them there can be no doubt ; but it was, I think, radically the same
as that" ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PELASGI»
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Ayo Oritsejafor Pope Francis
And that before the time of Troy the Pelasgi of Greece were settled by the Priests of Ammon. Priests directed more than in the time of Marquette ... «Nigerian Observer, Aug 13»
The 300 Savages at Thermopylae: A Response to the Hollywood …
Indeed, the Greeks are largely descended from the various aboriginal inhabitants such as the Pelasgi, Leleges, Kuretes, Kaukones, Aones, ... «Payvand, Mar 07»
