About other places in Dalmatia nothing can be said, for they are of no historical importance. The islands have already been spoken of. PHAROS produced Demetrius, whose villany and faithlessness are very characteristic of that age; he was only half a Greek, or rather a barbarian. He spent a great part of his life at the court of the barbarian queen, Teuta, and afterwards he went to that of Philip of Macedonia. The traits related of this man are terrible. Pharos is called Greek, but we must not imagine that its inhabitants were of pure Greek blood or had Greek manners, and Greek modes of life; they were Μιξέλληνες as in other similar places. CORCYRA MELAENA, the modern Curzola, cannot with certainty be called a Greek colony. MELITE may be noticed here because, according to some, it was the island where St. Paul, on his voyage to Rome, suffered shipwreck. But this is improbable, St. Luke would probably have been more explicit about it, and St. Paul would have crossed from thence to Ancona or some other port in the neighbourhood. We must in all probability refer the event to Malta, which was likewise called Melite. I now pass over the Iapydes, Istrians, Liburnians, Carnians and Venetians, as I intend to return to these nations from the West and from Noricum. FOOTNOTES [1] “The first journey of this kind was undertaken in the sixteenth century, by George Fabricius, but it produced only very insignificant results.” [2] The MS. notes contain very little about these maps, but what I recollect Niebuhr to have said agrees in the main with the opinion expressed in the _Lectures on Rom. Hist._ vol. iii. p. xciv., except that in the present Lectures he treated the matter more with ridicule, saying, e.g., that such men are immortalised even by having their portraits engraved on copper (in some Geographical Journal).—ED. [3] See _Kleine Schriften_, vol. i. p. 105, foll. [4] “It would be an interesting philological problem to show, how certain books gradually disappeared and ceased to be read.” [5] See _Klein. Schrift._, vol. i. p. 132, foll. [6] “It is written on white stone, and belongs to the time of Psammetichus II., that is, about the end of the Peloponnesian war. The λόφοι in Aristotle probably signify ostrich-feathers.” See _Corp. Inscript. Graec._, vol. iii. fasc. 2. n. 5126. I owe this reference to the kindness of the late Professor Franz.—ED. [7] _In Ctesiph._ 77 (p. 140, 9 ed. Dindorf). [8] The word “Latins” is only my conjecture. In all the MS. notes, the words are directly opposed to what the lecturer intended to prove; whence we may perhaps suppose, that Niebuhr himself made a _lapsus linguae_.—ED. [9] Comp. _Lectures on Anc. Hist._, vol. i. p. 200. [10] See Paus. vii. 1. [11] _Lect. on Anc. Hist._, vol. i. p. 204. [12] Ibid., vol. i. p. 232. [13] Paus. ii. 4, § 4. [14] _Aen._ vi. 838.