Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . now appears that the older name ofthe people was in their own languageGraikoi, a term which the immigrantshad evidently applied to themselveswith a view to distinction from morebarbarous peoples. The word Graikoi,which subsequently, in the Latin form ofGracci, became the designative of the DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES—WEST ARYAN MIGRATIONS. 489 Hellenic race among all peoples, signi-fied old, or honorable. It was thus veryn
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . now appears that the older name ofthe people was in their own languageGraikoi, a term which the immigrantshad evidently applied to themselveswith a view to distinction from morebarbarous peoples. The word Graikoi,which subsequently, in the Latin form ofGracci, became the designative of the DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES—WEST ARYAN MIGRATIONS. 489 Hellenic race among all peoples, signi-fied old, or honorable. It was thus verynearly equivalent to the Latin declares that ancient Hellaswas the country about Dodona andAchelous. Here, he adds, livedthe Selloi and the people then called theGraikoi, afterwards the Hellenes. Thus itself the elements which were after-wards to be distributed in Italy and tobecome the germs of the The Greek mi- ^^ gration con- Italic, or Latin, race. The tamed the po- , /- , 1 ? tenoy of the exact shape of the mi- in this respect is, of course, un-known. It is sufficient to allege thatthe migratory wave out of Asia carried.
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