THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE VOL.I by W.Ridgeway 1901

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Herodotus^ does not wholly agree with this, for he says
:
"The Caunians in my judgment are aboriginals; but Egypt and
by their
Libya.
own account they came from Crete. In their language either
they have From
approximated to the Crete we
Carians, or the Carians to
ought to have passed to Libya and Egypt,
the two
them."
regions with which she had such close relations from
He adds that " remote
in their customs they differ times. However it was
widely from the
necessary for our argument to
Carians and from all other men," adducing as discuss the
examples of their
ethnology of Crete before dealing with that of Lycia.
As
peculiarities their fondness of wine-parties and their dislike of
Libya and Egypt are intimately connected in the early
legends, in their ethnology and in their antiquities, it will be
foreign gods.
best to treat them
Hero(l(jtus did not know whether the Caunians had together.
adopted
In historical times the relations between
the Carian tongue or the Carians the Cannian. But looking to
Egypt and the
the evidence as a whole, it would seem that the statement of
contiguous coast of North Africa have always been more or
the Caunians was in the main true, though
it is probable from
less close. Such has been the case under the domination of
the fact that they spoke Carian, and not Lycian, that they had
the Saracens, and though Crete and the Cyrcnaica formed one
Roman
absorbed some older inhabitants whom they found in occupation
They had like the the cities of the
province, nevertheless the relations between Egypt and
Lycians come from
Pentapolis remained much as they had been
under the Ptolemies when the
Crete, but whilst to a certain degre*- retaining their ancient
Cyrenaica practically formed
institutions, they had adopted the language of the Carians or
part of the kingdom of Egypt. The native Libyan tribes
which wt're the terror of the Greek cities of
Lele^ese whom they had coiKpiered, and with whom they had
Cyrenaica had
probably intermarried. Such an occurrence can likewise in their time been a
easily be
great danger to the Egypt of the
Pharaohs, as is testified not
().")()
paralleled (p. .S).
only by the CJreek s(Mirct's, but In'
It is
probable that the Caunians are the the
})eople
I'eferred to
Egy})tian monuments.
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