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 HC5TOST OF GKEECE. ft the |iie* with whom they fraternized, so that the result was i ; next, that even this was done only in the fully extended to the territorial domain smaller townships which stood to the town in relation. The -olic and Ionic Greeks borrowed from the A s "*"' g whom they had Hellenized, musical instruments ad new laws of rhythm and melody, which they knew how to turn to account : they farther adopted more or less of those violent and maddening religions rites, manifested occasionally in self- inflicted nflcring and mutilation, which were indigenous in Asia Minor in the worship of the Great Mother. The religion of the Greeks in the region of Ida as well as at Kyzikus was more orgiastic than the native worship of Greece Proper, just as that of T^a^M^m^ Priapos and Parium was more licentious. From the Tenkriaa region of Gergis, and from the Gergithes near Kyme, sprang the original Sibylline prophecies, and the legend- ary Sibvll who plays so important a part in the tale of -Eneas : the mythe of the SibyH, whose prophecies are supposed to be heard in the hollow blast bursting out from obscure caverns and apertures in the rocks, 1 was indigenous among the Gergithian Teukrians, and passed from the Kymoeans in JEolis. along with the other circumstances of the tale of .rF.neas, to their brethren thj inhabitants of Cumae in Italy. The date of the Gergithian Sibyfl, or rather of the circulation of her supposed prophecies, is placed during the reign of Croesus, a period when Gergis was thoroughly Teukrian. Her prophecies, though embodied in Greek verses, had their root in a Teukrian soil and feeling? : and the promises of future empire which they so liberally make to the fugitive hero escaping from the flames of Troy into Italy, become interesting from the remarkable way in which they were realized by Rome. 9 Virgil, Mood, TV 42 : ExeiMB BUbuti latus ingens ropis in antmm, Qoo lati dncnnt aditns centum, ostia centum ; Unde rmmat totidem voces, mpoosa Sibvllx. PMHOOM, x. 12, 8; Ltantias, i 6, 12: Steph. Bjz. r. Mf^rawy; S-iL PUt Phjedr. p. 315, Bekker. TW tee of this Gergid in SibjlL or of the propbci psaing under hef