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 Jer. al.); but this in Semitic is (Tarzi). Cf. Wi. AOF, i. 445 f.; Müller, OLz. iii. 291.

(10) ] cf. Jer. 2$10$, Ezk. 27$6$, Is. 23$1. 12$, Dn. 11$30$, 1 Mac. 1$1$ 8$5$, Nu. 24$24$. Against the prevalent view that it denotes primarily the island of Cyprus, so called from its chief city (Larnaka), Wi. (AOF, ii. 422$1$; cf. KAT$3$, 128) argues that neither the island nor its capital is so named in any ancient document, and that the older biblical references demand a site further W. The application to the Macedonians (1 Mac.) he describes as one of those false identifications common in the Egypt of the Ptolemaic period. His argument is endorsed by Müller (OLz. iii. 288) and Je. (ATLO$2$, 261): they suggest S Italy, mainly on the authority of Dn. 11$30$. The question is obviously bound up with the identity of —Alašia (v.s.).

(11) or  ([E] G  and 1 Ch. 1$7$)] a name omitted by Jos. If G be right, the Rhodians are doubtless meant (cf. Il. ii. 654 f.): the sing. is perhaps disguised in the corrupt of Ezk. 27$15$ (cf. G). The MT has been explained of the Dardanians (T$J$, De. al.), "properly a people of Asia Minor, not far from the Lycians" (Che. EB, 1123). Wi. (l.c.) proposes, the Dorians; and Müller , Eg. Da-nô-na = TA, Da-nu-na (KIB, v. 277), on the W coast of Asia Minor.

(12) ] and

(13) ] are mentioned together in Ezk. 27$13$ (as exporting slaves and copper), 32$26$ (a warlike people of antiquity), 38$2f.$ 39$1$ (in the army of Gog), Is. 66$19$ (G); alone in Ps. 120$5$. Jos. arbitrarily identifies them with the Iberians and Cappadocians respectively; but since Bochart no one has questioned their identity with the and, first mentioned in Her. iii. 94 as belonging to the 19th satrapy of Darius, and again (vii. 78) as furnishing a contingent to the host of Xerxes (cf. Strabo, xi. ii. 14, 16). Equally obvious is their identity with the Tabali and Muški of the Ass. Monn., where the latter appear as early as Tiglath-pileser I. (c. 1100), and the former under Shalmaneser II. (c. 838),—both as formidable military states. In Sargon's inscrs. they appear together; and during this whole period their territory evidently extended much further S and W than in Græco-Roman times. These stubborn little nationalities, which so tenaciously maintained their identity, are regarded by Wi. and Je. as remnants of the old Hittite population which were gradually driven (probably by the Cimmerian invasion) to the mountainous district SE of the Black Sea.

(14) ] not mentioned elsewhere, was almost unanimously taken by the ancients (Jos. T$J$, Jer. etc.; and so Boch. al.) to be the Thracians ; but the superficial resemblance vanishes when the nominative ending σ is removed. Tu. was the first to suggest the , a race of Pelasgian pirates, who left many traces of their ancient prowess in the islands and coasts of the Ægean, and who were