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206 THE HISTORYles*, for which I have indisputable authorilies;and after having once thus stiFd them, they greedilycatch'd at the allusive sound of their leadersor magistrates, Grecizing those grandees, or Boireadhach,into Boreades: which was literally understoodin Greece of the fabulous descendants ofBoreas, very consonantly to their mythology, or,if you will, to their theology. But I noted beforet,that Plato, in his Cratylus, was of opinion j: theGreecs had borrow'd many words from the barbarians;'' especially," adds he, "such of theGreecs as livd in the barbarian territories:"which may be fairly suppos'd to include thosewho navigated, or that drove any traffic amongthem. And hence the divine philosopher himselfdraws this accurat§ inference, " that ifany man wou'd indeavor to adjust the etymologiesof those words with the Greec language, andnot rather seek for them in that to which theyoriginally belong, he must needs be at a loss.'*'Tis farther most deserving observation, that Eratosthenes,an antient chronologer and geographer ofvast reputation for learning, speaking of Apollo'sfamous arrotv, with which he slew the Cyclopes,and in honor of which one of the constellations is* No^y of Gibraltar. i Letter II. Section V.X E>vo« yap, ore ttca?.* e. F7.X>ivEC ovo/uaw, «X>.a;f ri x.t. oi vrro rciq /Sap'a;^? cx.y-;T£f, TTct.^'^ yu>y (5«pSapa;v siX«4)acr». Jtita' Opera, Edit. Puris. Vol. 1 pag. 4i'9..j Ei rig ^vroi Tama Kara, t»;> 'E\>.wiHKV