This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...by this line of criticism may form same name. the subject of another paper. In the present, the author hazards a fresh observation--an observation on a population often associated with the Agathyrsi, viz. the Geloni. Seeing that we have such forms as Unni (the Greek form is Ovvvoi, not Ovvvoi) and Chuni ( = ffuns); Arpi and Carpi; Attuarii and Challuari, &c.; and seeing the affinity between the sounds of g and k; he believes that the word Geloni may take another form and begin with a vowel (Eldni, Aloni). Seeing that their locality is nearly that of the Alani of a latter period; seeing that the middle syllable in Alani (in one writer at least) is long--akxrjsVxeg 'Akavvoi; seeing that Herodotus, who mentions the Geloni, knows no Alani, whereas the authors who describe the Alani make (with one exception about to be noticed) no mention of the Geloni, he identifies the two populations, Geloni and Alani, or vice versa. He deduces something more from this root /--n (A--v). Let the name for the Alans have reached the Greeks of the Euxine through two different dialects of some interjacent language; let the form it took in Greek have been parisyllabic in one case, whereas it was imparisyllabic in the other, and we have two plurals, one in-ot, as rikavoi, "Akavvoi, "Akavoi, and another in-eg, as rikavsg, "Akavveg, "Akaveg, --possible, and even probable, modifications of the original name, whatever that was. Now, name for name, Akaveg comes very near Ekkrjveg; and in this similarity may lie the explanation of the statement of Herodotus as to the existence of certain Scythian Greeks ('Ektyvsg Lxv&cci)--iv. 17. 108. If so these Scythian Greeks were Alans. The exception, indicated a few lines above, to the fact of only one...