| 1. AFTER this they were dispersed abroad, on account of their languages and went out by colonies everywhere; and each colony took possession of that land which they came upon and to which God led them; so that the whole continent was filled with them, both the inland and the maritime countries. There were some also who passed over the sea in ships and inhabited the islands: and some of those nations still retain the names which were given them by their first founders; but some have lost them also and some have only admitted certain changes in them, that they might be the more intelligible to the inhabitants. And they were the Greeks who became the authors of such mutations. For when in after-ages they grew potent, they claimed to themselves the glory of antiquity; giving names to the nations that sounded well (in Greek) that they might be better understood among themselves; and setting agreeable forms of government over them, as if they were a people derived from themselves. | |