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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 57 (search)
What language the Pelasgians spoke I cannot say definitely. But if one may judge by those that still remain of the Pelasgians who live above the TyrrheniIf these are the Etruscans, then Creston may = Cortona: but the whole matter is doubtful. in the city of Creston—who were once neighbors of the people now called Dorians, and at that time inhabited the country which now is called Thessalian—
and of the Pelasgians who inhabited Placia and Scylace on the Hellespont, who came to live among the Athenians, and by other towns too which were once Pelasgian and afterwards took a different name: if, as I said, one may judge by these, the Pelasgians spoke a language which was not Greek.
If, then, all the Pelasgian stock spoke so, then the Attic nation, being of Pelasgian blood, must have changed its language too at the time when it became part of the Hellenes. For the people of Creston and Placia have a language of their own in common, which is not the language of their neighbors; and it is p
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 205, 206 (search)
Atque equidem Teucrum
memini Sidona venire 1. 619, where, as
here, atque expresses the appositeness
of the remark. Annis, by reason of years.
Cerda comp. Ov. F. 6. 103, obscurior
aevo Fama. Scaliger thought the sense
was Haud ita multi sunt anni, sed fama
pervagata non est. The dimness of the
tradition accounts for the appeal to the
Auruncan elders. The Aurunci (or
Ausones) were regarded as a primitive
people, and identified with the Aborigines.
The tradition was preserved only
by the oldest men of the oldest race.
Ut is epexegetical of ita. Cory.
thus or Cortona being in Etruria, his
agris must be taken with some latitude.