Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . stly Sikcl, but they may have been Sikan beforethat. We have spoken of the Phoenician walls atMotya ; they may well be Old-Phoenician; the workat Eryx and Lilybaion is Carthaginian. And we havementioned the Sikel building at Cefalu. There isvery little more, except the tombs of two Phoenicianwomen in the Museum at Palermo. There arePhoenician coins with Phoenician legends ; of theother nations we have no coins, till they came to coinafter Greek models. Of the Sikan and Elymiantongues we can say nothing ; the Sikel tongue, wehave seen, was near akin to th
Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . stly Sikcl, but they may have been Sikan beforethat. We have spoken of the Phoenician walls atMotya ; they may well be Old-Phoenician; the workat Eryx and Lilybaion is Carthaginian. And we havementioned the Sikel building at Cefalu. There isvery little more, except the tombs of two Phoenicianwomen in the Museum at Palermo. There arePhoenician coins with Phoenician legends ; of theother nations we have no coins, till they came to coinafter Greek models. Of the Sikan and Elymiantongues we can say nothing ; the Sikel tongue, wehave seen, was near akin to the Latin. But we haveno writings or inscriptions in any of them. ThePhoenician lanTuatje and all about the Phoenicians 28 SICILY AND ITS INHABITANTS. is well known, but not by reason of their presencein Sicily. All these nations, the Phoenicians thenn-selves among them, make only a preliminary part ofour subject. The real history of Sicily, as a landplayinCT a great part in the affairs of the world, beginswith the coming- of the III. THE LEGENDS. [Here, even more than ia other parts of the story, we have to pickup scraps of knowledge where we can. Our nearest approach to any-thing continuous is in the fifth book of Diodoros, where he is dealingwith the legendary times of Greece, and brings in many of the storiesof his own island. About the Palici we learn most from the late Latinwriter Macrobius, who has collected a great deal about them frommany sources ; but Diodoros has something to say too. The account ofHadranus comes chiefly from two notices in the History of Animals bythe late Greek writer /Elian. The legend ot Demeter and Persephoneis scattered over the whole range of Greek literature ; Init in its specialrelation to Henna it comes out wholly in Latin writers. It begins inthe great speech of Cicero against Verres, and goes on in the poets Ovidand Claudian.] In the history of Sicily, perhaps even more thanelsewhere, we must take special heed to distinguishgenuine
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