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Dear Henry

I wonder you omitted in your Genesis ¹ to suggest that ãõíç ãõíçêáéïí [sic] ãåéíïìáé ãåíåóéò are all from one root & that you have not noticed the wellknown etymology of Äçìçôçñ from Ãç ìç ôçñ

In the inscription you quote from Montfaucon you do not say whether it is greek or latin & Sybele in latin may be Spelt for Êõâçëç as well as for Óõâçëç

I always thought the Eolic was the nearest Greek to the Latin – probably as being Pelasgic. Attis I suppose is the compound we find in Halyattes, &c & other Lydian names, & derived from Atta, father – as Áôáëëùí tata, Lada, pater, father. Is Atys the same word – The Goddess of Ephesus was surely always Diana & no other.

What do you know of the Lingua Isaurica about which there is a dissertation I think in Stephanii Thesaurus which I never read. If the Syrian & Assyrians were one people Syria & Assyrian were two very different countries There might have been a popular Ararat ² in Phrygia as well as in Persia if there are not more of them besides the Armenian

Ancyra ³ in the same part of Asia was named by the Ancients from an anchor áãêϒñá supposed to be left there on the subsidence of I believe Ogyges Deucalions ⁴ deluge – It must have been that mentioned by Ovid when he speaks of in montibus Anchora summis ⁵ & is not too far from Apamea to have partaken in the same traditions –

Y^r aff
W F S

You missed seeing my fine Pushkinia &c &c &c