A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...
A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...
Bryant Jacob
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And in another place : du- cit Amazonidas lunatis agmina peltis Penthiselea, *♦ Isidorus. Orig. }. & c. 21 1 15 Ibid. L 18. c. 4. Digitized by VjOOQlC ANTIE1TF MTTHOLOGT. I£9 f ureas* The Amazonian shield approached nearly to the shape of a leaf, as did the shields of the Gothic nations. Pliny says of the Indian fig : l6 Foliorum latitudo peltae- effigiem Amazoniae habet. Upon these shields they had more lunettes than one : and from them the custom was derived to the Turks, and other Tartar nat...ions. A large body of this family settled upon the Bo- risthenes ; also in the Tauric Chersonese, and in the 17 regions adjacent. In these {daces they were styled Amazons, and also ,8 Cimmerians. Some writers have thought, that the colony of the Colchians was from hence : but others more truly suppose, that this people came from Colchis. They were once a very '• Pliny. Hist. Nat. 1. 12. c. 5. p. 657. 17 Especially upon the Tanais. £»»Am, Kt/x/xipioi ti. Dionys. Ilfpiny. v. 678. Here was a river Phasis, similar to that at Colchis.
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