[43] Æschylus already peoples the whole of Greece with Pelasgians.
[44] We may indeed look upon this conclusion as certain, although the researches on the mysteries themselves will ever remain fruitless.
[45] The Fir-Bolgs belong to the Bardic history of Ireland, which mentions them as having formed the third immigration in Ireland. The Scots found them in Ireland ruled by kings. To them the construction of the Cyclopian walls in Ireland is attributed.—Note of the German Editor.
[46] In the existing collections of fragments of Cato, I do not find this statement. I therefore suppose that Cato is here confounded with Dionysius, who A. R. I, 16, has the notice alluded to.—Note of the German Editor.
[47] Probably C. Sempronius Tuditanus, the same whom Dionysius A. R. I, 11, calls λογιώτατον τῶν Ῥωμαίων συγγραφέων.—Note of the German Editor.
[48] I entered upon these researches already as a youth; but in the last edition only of my history I arrived at clear views. I relied too much on Varro’s authority, though I judged correctly as to the main point.
[49] Albanos rerum potitos usque ad Tullum. Festus s. v. praetor.
[50] R. H. I. page 222.
[51] It is well known that there exists in Stobæus a poem on Rome, as the authoress of which Erinna is mentioned. As Erinna, however, sung in times in which Rome cannot be supposed to have in any way created a sensation in Æolia, one has had recourse to the explanation, that it was a hymn on strength. Strength cannot however be called a daughter of Mars. The poem is of a far later period, and from these premises some one might perhaps succeed in guessing the misspelt name of the author. He certainly belongs to the time after the war of Hannibal, and perhaps even as late as the times of the emperors: the most likely supposition, however, seems to me that he was a contemporary of Sylla.
[52] In eastern tales, children are fed with the marrow of lions.