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CANTO II.] 29.

Palikar, shortened when addressed to a single person, from [], a general name for a soldier amongst the Greeks and Albanese, who speak Romaic: it means, properly, "a lad."

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As a specimen of the Albanian or Arnaout dialect of the Illyric, I here insert two of their most popular choral songs, which are generally chanted in dancing by men or women indiscriminately. The first words are merely a kind of chorus without meaning, like some in our own and all other languages.