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Vallancey - Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Volume 4, Issue 12, Page 6

Vallancey - Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Volume 4, Issue 12, Page 6
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The Antiquarian Society, 1782
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Vallancey, Charles
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Vallancey - Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis
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4
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PREFACE. litarenz delegiffe, (autlior eft Ephorus 🙂 to which headds, that having induced many other people to obferve the fame military iiyIitution, they were all difttnguithed by the one common name of Pelalgi. This.explanation of the name Pelafgi, accords extremelywell with the Magogian Irifh; in which language, qfcaand afcath is a foldier, (in Arab. aJker, an army)pleafgam, is to conquer, and pIqfca or p il- fcai is theleader of an army; thus we fay, pal-maire, the gover-nor of a thip, i. e. the rudder of a thip. Now Pelafgus being only a title given to their lead-er, by themfelves, has fill involved the origin of thishero in greater obfcurity. Sir I. NEW TON makes himone of the fubje s of the pafior kings of Egypt, madefugitives by Milphragmuthofis; but the learnedFourmont (the elder) is pofitive, the Pelafgi werePhilliftines, and in the following pages, we thall provethey wereMagogian Scythians, long fettled in Palefline,having produced many authorities of the ancients,that they flouriIhed at Bethfan afterwards named bythe Greeks Scythopolis, from their dwelling in thatCity. Potter in his Grecian antiquities, fays, thePelafgi were Tyrbenians born, and (fpeaking of thebuilding of Athens) taught the Greeks the art of build-ing houfes of lime and ftone, and from them, wallsand cafiles were called T goi . Is it poffible that Pottercould be ignorant that the Hebrew and Chaldeewas a circular building, a tower, from the originof languages? Obierve the ancient hiftory of the I ithin this particular, 4fricanfea-champions landed inIreland, conquered the country, introduced theirlanguage, and taught the inhabitants to build with lime and ifone, to build what ?.Round towers un-doubtedly, for no other buildings were erected in Ire-landPREFACE.land of lime and fione, for many centuries after-wards: but thefe conquering Pelafgi, thefe ingeniousartifts, who routed the Greeks from Elifha and builtthe city of Athens, were called Pelargi, fays Straho,(and after him Potter) from Pelargi, forks,i - ct k for their wandering: and they built fhipscalled exxgi (apud Lycoph.) naves ciconiarung q/Jimili colore tint1 . What a jumble of nonfenfeOur Pelafgi named Athens, Pelargi, for the fame reafon that the ancient Irifh named the city of Water-ford Rel-lairge, and the harbour Port-lairge, meaningthereby a town built at the (lairge or) forks of the ri-ver; this city having been firft conftru ted at theforks of the rivers Suire and Barrow, as Athens wasat the forks of the Ifys and fome other river the nameI cannot learn. The Irifb built veffels of bark and i called them leabar-;:aoi and coirteas-naoi, and hence the W w Iilatin Liburninz naves or light fhips and the Greel / 1 1 The Greeks dedicated this famous city t t- -Dl\4inerva goddefs of wifdomand named it Athernnbecaufe in the Pelafgian tongue, as in the Irifh, Aithneis knowledge, wifdom, &c. and every ignorant pea-fant in Ireland, at this day, looks up to his rniftrefsas an A& i. e. a woman of fuperior knowledge. Ce-crops (a Pelafgian) having compleated this city calledit , becaufe in his language (and in Irith, aJli) is adwelling, and fo conceited were the Greeks of beingable to live above-ground, they called themfelves otdwellers in houfes, hence Terence an in ajia venil? Wehave no other word at this day in Ireland to enquireif fuch -a one is in his houfe or at home, but bJ7,uil a;fear aJli (aftee) is the man at home? This calls to mymind, ar obfervation of the ingenious Mr. I-Iolwell,he fays, the annals of the Gentoos, give teftimonyof
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12
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6
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Vallancey - Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Volume 4, Issue 12

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