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NATIONS IN ASIA MINOR. 207 ather, perhaps not mutually intelligible. The Karians, Lydians, and Mysians recognized a certain degree of brotherhood with each other, attested by common religious sacrifices in the temple of Zeus Karios, at Mylasa. 1 But it is by no means certain that each of these nations mutually comprehended each other's speech ; and Herodotus, from whom we derive the knowledge of these com- mon sacrifices, acquaints us at the same time that the Kaunians in the south-western corner of the peninsula had no share in them, though speaking the same language as the Karians ; he does not, however, seem to consider identity or difference of language as a test of national affinity. Along the coast of the Euxine, from the Thracian Bosphorus eastward to the river Halys, dwelt Bithynians or Thynians, Mari- andynians and Paphlagonians, all recognized branches of the widely-extended Thracian race. The Bithynians especially, in the north-western portion of this territory, and reaching from the Euxine to the Propontis, are often spoken of as Asiatic Thra- cians, while on the other hand various tribes among the Thracians of Europe, are denominated Thyni, or Thynians, 2 so little difference was there in the population on the two sides of the Bosphorus, alike brave, predatory, and sanguinary. The Bithynians of Asia are also sometimes called Bebrykians, under which denomination they extend as far southward as the gulf of Kios in the Propontis. 3 They here come in contact with Myg- Gcrmanic family, and is essentially distinct from the Semitic: see Kitter, Erdkunde, "Vest-Asien, b. iii, abth. iii ; Abschn. i, 5, 36, pp. 577-582. He- rodotus rarely takes notice of the language spoken, nor does he on this occasion, when speaking of the river Halys as a boundary. 1 Herodot. i, 170-171. 8 Strabo, vii, pp. 293-303 ; xii, pp. 542, 564, 5G5, 572 ; Herodot. i, 28 ; vii, 74-75 ; Xenophon. Hellenic, i, 3, 2 ; Anabasis, vii, 2, 22-32. Mannert, Geographic der Gr. nnd Romer, b. viii, ch. ii, p. 403. 3 Dionys. Perieget. 803 ; Apollodorns, i, 9, 20. Thcokritus puts the Bebrykians on the coast of the Euxine Id. xxii, 29 ; Syneell. p. 340, Bonn. The story in Appian, Bell. Mithridat. init. is a singular specimen of Grecian fancy, and anxiety to connect the antiquities of a nation with the Trojan war: the Greeks whom he followed assigned the origin of the Bithynians to Thracian followers of Rhesus, who fled from Troy after the latter had been killed by Diomedes : Dolor.kus, eponym of the Thracians in the Chersoncsus, is called brother of Bithynus (Steph. Byz. AoAoy/tof Btdvvia). the name Maouat-tiwet, like Bi-tiwoi, may probably be an extension or