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po^vcr^ ifthej'mean to hold whal they have acquired. But
the situation, as well as the condition, of this race, and their
first name, cOmbine in proving them relics of the former in-
habitants, or aboriginal. The Sarmaiai then, or Sc/avoiici^y
were tliose whom the Goths found in the land of Riphath, or
the Eastern division of ancient Germany, and the diversity of
their language proves them no parents of the \\'estern Celta?,
though it has a degree of afhnity with the Celtic, which
intimates that, once they were contiguous families.
Togarmah is claimed as their patriarch by the inhabitants
of those countries which lie b>et\veen the Euxine or Caspian
seas. This appears to be demonstrated, in a masterly paper,
iiie work of Mr. Granville Penn, to which I refer my own
"Readers for the authorities*. From this country have sprung,
as it is generally understood, the Europcau Scj/t/tians, Goths
or Germans. Perhaps they have nearly retained the name of
iheir progenitor. 3 aflixcd, being equivalent to the prefix
jn, rnDIJ, German, must be the same word as ΠΏΊ^Π, Togarmah,
perhaps from D"iJ, to be bony or strong. It may at all events
be salely concluded, from tiie language of this Race, tliat in
Togarmah we have no parent of the Western Cehce.
We must return then to Ashkenaz, whom Josephus calls
Aç^aice|xç, and the Greeks perhaps Acxawo;. His name is
understood to keep possession of the Ascanian or Euxine sea,
as well as of the nook which lies between that sea and the
Propontist• When Ashkenaz occupied this position, the
* Oiient. Coll. v. e, p. 143.
+ Ascania, acity of Troas. StfpA. of Phiygia, Htsych.
Ascaniffi insula, bcfoie Troas. Pliv.
Ascanius sinus, by Nicea. Ascanius Lacus, between Phrygia and Mvsia.
Arrian.
A liver, and the whole disfrifi were known by that name. Strabo. who
cites fiom Euphorion— Mi;íOkî 'mct^ υάχ<ί^ν Ajxa^ojo.