. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . until, from the midst of them, there should arise acity, which formed at tlieir cost her popidation, her laws, andher religion—Kome herself, the asylum of all races and of allItalian civilizations ! All the Italian races belonged to the great Indo-Europeanfamily. Mhich came fiom the high regions of Central Asia andgradually peopled a part of Western Asia and the whole ofEurope. When they penetrated into the peninsula, they had alreadyarrived at that d(>gree of civilization which .stood mid
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . until, from the midst of them, there should arise acity, which formed at tlieir cost her popidation, her laws, andher religion—Kome herself, the asylum of all races and of allItalian civilizations ! All the Italian races belonged to the great Indo-Europeanfamily. Mhich came fiom the high regions of Central Asia andgradually peopled a part of Western Asia and the whole ofEurope. When they penetrated into the peninsula, they had alreadyarrived at that d(>gree of civilization which .stood mid-wav betweenthe pastoral or nomad and theagricultural or settled state. Themost ancient geographical namesare a proof of this; ( w;isthe coimtry of the vine; ItalvUifiiliis), that of oxen; the cciis whence /nrxn/H. Svbaris, like Buxentum, seemsto have wished to preserve this remembrance. One of her coinsbears on both sides the image of an ox. The most ancient of these nations seem to have belonged to. Coin of Sybaris. We miist say that of oriuiii and ivlaticmship are among the which are still ljein<r arfruej e\erv day. The ex ideuce for and are so mixed,that both sides can accumulate contrary (juotatioiis and interpretations, .so that this mags ofdoubtful proofs rather fatigues than enliuhtens the mind. Xiebuhr says, as regards one of thesepeoples : What abuses of imagination were not indulged ui with regard to the mysteries andwisdom of the Pelasgians! Their veiT name is an abomination to the truthful and serious his-torian. It is this disgust which kept me from making any general references to that people,lest I might open the floodgates for a new deluge of writing about this wretched subject. Butlater on he himself could not that inclination which led him, like most of his countn,-men, to guess out lost history, and the Pelasgians obtained from him sixty page.*. The mostrecent and complete work on the
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