. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . e Goths have consignedthe Tiniis, wliom they bud dispossessed, to the extremities ofthe eartli under tlie forms of industrious dwarfs, and of formid-able^ magicians. Like the Ielasgians, the Finns o])en mines andwoi-k metals, and it is they who forge for the Odinic gods theinvincible shackles of the wolf Fcnris, as Vidcan, the Pclasgicgod, had made, for new divinities also, the chains of Prometheus. It seems, then, that there A\eie at the noilh and at the southof Europe two great nations who
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . e Goths have consignedthe Tiniis, wliom they bud dispossessed, to the extremities ofthe eartli under tlie forms of industrious dwarfs, and of formid-able^ magicians. Like the Ielasgians, the Finns o])en mines andwoi-k metals, and it is they who forge for the Odinic gods theinvincible shackles of the wolf Fcnris, as Vidcan, the Pclasgicgod, had made, for new divinities also, the chains of Prometheus. It seems, then, that there A\eie at the noilh and at the southof Europe two great nations who knew the earliest arts, and com-menced this struggle against physical nature, which our moderncivilization continues with so much success. But both weresubdued and euised alter their defeat by the war-like tribes,who looked upon \\ork as servile labour, and made slaveiy the lawof the ancient world In Italy, where their fiist colonies settled at a remote epoch,the Ielasgians covered, under various names, the gr(>ater part of Pelasgi primi Italiani tenuisse perhibentur (Serv. in Ain., viii. 000).. ^---^ -^^^^^m-^ kilt \-^
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