A treatise on the study of antiquities as the commentary to historical learning, sketching out a general line of research / [Thomas Pownall].

  • Thomas Pownall
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1782
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Credit: A treatise on the study of antiquities as the commentary to historical learning, sketching out a general line of research / [Thomas Pownall]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the commentators fay It Is an Egyp- tian plant; its root was black, but its head or flower as white as milk. Now, Moll fignifies In Welfh a white fcurf, efpeclally about the eyes. I could not but mention this latter inftance, though, to fay the truth, I repofe not much upon it. Plato dlfcourfing of etymology, in his Cratylus, fays, But how fhall we refolve, or to what fhall we refer, thofe words which are barbarian ; as the word nSp, for inftance, which is Phrygian. We ftiall be all wrong if we refolve this to Grecian elements. IIup then fignifying fire, is a barbarous word, or of the lan- guage of the race of men. Now, the language which has this word wdth the n afpirated, Is the language of north of Europe, univerfally for Fuer in German ; and Fir in Swedifti is fire. We all know that the region which was vulgarly and by relative appellation .called Theflaly, was originally named Aimonla [Dionyf. Halicarm, lib. I.] Now SsTj(xXtoi or and 0£cr(7(%A/ci;, are the fame ; but T’uat’dale In the Celtic means, relatively fpeaking, northern dif- trift. Will any one deny that ©cicTlcy.Xicc and T’uat’alla are the fame. So much for
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