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 KTIINIl'AL AFFINITIES AND MIGHATIOXS. 209 gulf. This Teukro-Mysian migration, he tells us, brought about two consequences: first, the establishment near the river Strymon of the Paxmians, who called themselves Teukrian colonists :'* next, the crossing into Asia of many of the dispossessed Thracian tribes from the neighborhood of the Strymon, into the north- western region of Asia Minor, by which the Bithynian or Asiatic Thracian people was formed. The Phrygians also are supposed by some to have originally occupied an European soil on the borders of Macedonia, near the snow-clad Mount Bermion, at which time they were called Briges, an appellative name in the Lydian language equivalent to freemen, or Franks : 2 while the Mysians are said to have come from the north-eastern portions of European Thrace south of the Danube, known under the Romnn empire by the name of Mcesia. 3 But with respect to the Mysians there was also another story, according to which they were described as colonists emanating from the Lydians ; put forth according to that system of devoting by solemn vow a tenth of the inhabitants, chosen by lot, to seek settlements elsewhere, which recurs not unfrequently among the stories of early emi- grations, as the consequence of distress and famine. And this last opinion was supported by the character of the Mysian lan- guage, half Lydian and half Phrygian, of which both the Lydian historian Xanthus, and Menekrates of Ela?a, 4 by whom the opinion was announced, must have been very competent judges. From such tales of early migration both ways across the Hellespont and the Bosphorus, all that AVC can with any certainty infer is, a certain measure of affinity among the population of Thrace and Asia Minor, especially visible in the case of the Phrygians and Mysians. The name and legends of the Phrygian hero Midas are connected with different towns throughout the 1 Herodot. vii, 20-75. Strabo, vii, p. 295 ; xii, p. 550 ; Herodot. vii, 73 ; Hesych. v, B/wya. 3 Strabo, vii, p. 295; xii, pp. 542, 564, 571, where he cites the geographei Artemidorus. In the passage of the Iliad (xiii, 5), the Mvaot uyxfyax * appear to be conceived by the poet in European Thrace ; but Apollodorai does not seem to have so construed the passage. Xicbuhr (Kleine S'.'hriftcn p. 370) expresses himself more confidently t'ian the evidence warrartf" 4 Strabo, xii, p. 572 ; Herodot. vii, 74. VOL. III. 140C.