P. [153]. The wealth of Egyptian Thebes was known to Achilles; see Il. ix. 381.
P. [167]. The Birth of Minos will be more fully discussed in connection with the Outer Geography of the Odyssey. On the ancient and extensive influence of Phœnicia upon Crete, see Höck’s Creta, vol. i. pp. 68 and seqq.
P. [186]. On the word lupus, see Müller’s Dorians, II. vi. 8, 9, for its relation to λευκὸς, λυκὴ, λυκηγενὴς, or light-born, and lux.
P. [306]. In general confirmation of what has been said above on the subject of language, I may refer to the Römische Geschichte[968] of Mommsen, which had not come under my eye when the Seventh Section went to press.
His conclusions are;
1. That the Greek and mid-Italian languages correspond, in what touches the rudiments of the material life of man.
2. That in the higher region of the mind, of religion, and of advanced polity, this correspondence wholly fails.
3. That the Græco-Italic agrees with the Sanscrit down to the pastoral stage of society only, and ceases with the commencement of the agricultural and settled stage.
4. That the abstract genius of the Roman religion bears a relation to the Greek anthropophuism, like that of the full-formed Indian mythology to the metaphysical scheme of the Zendavesta.
He appears to me to cast the balance overmuch on the Roman side: but his statement will well repay an attentive consideration.