[31] The Greek word Θρᾴκη, Thrace, in passing into the Ionian dialect Θρῄξ, has furnished the following expressions: θρῆσκος, a devotee, θρησκεία, devotion, θρησκηύω, I adore with devotion. These words, diverted from their real sense and used ironically after the cult of Thrace had yielded to that of Delphi, were applied to ideas of superstition and even of fanaticism. The point of considering the Thracians as schismatics was even reached, and the word ἐθελοθρησκεία composed to express a heresy, a cult particular to those who practised it, and separated from orthodoxy. [32] Œtolinos is composed, by contraction, of two words which appear to belong to one of the Thracian dialects. _Œto-Kyros_ signifies the ruling sun, among the Scythians, according to Herodotus (l. iv., 59). _Helena_ signified the moon, among the Dorians. It is from this last word, deprived of its article _he_, that the Latins have made _Luna_. [33] Court de Gébelin, _Monde primit._, t. viii., p. 190. Pausanias, l. x. Conférez avec Æschyl. _In Choephori_, v. 1036; Eurip., _In Orest._, v. 1330; Plat.,, _De Rep._, l. iv., etc. [34] Plut., _De Music._ Tzetzes, _Chiliads_, vii.; _Hist._, 108. [35] _Amphion_, in Greek Ἀμφίων, comes from the Phœnician words אמ (_am_), a mother-nation, a metropolis, פי (_phi_), a mouth, a voice, and יון (_Jôn_), Greece. Thence the Greeks have derived Ὀμφή, a _mother-voice_, that is, orthodox, legal, upon which all should be regulated. _Thamyris_, in Greek Θάμυρις, is composed of the Phœnician words תאמ (_tham_), twin, אור (_aur_), light, יש (_ish_), of the being. [36] Plut., _De Music._ [37] Diod. Sicul., l. iii., 35. Pausan., _In Bœot._, p. 585. [38] _Bibliotheca Græca_, p. 4. [39] Duhalde, t. iv., _in-fol._, p. 65. These Tartars had no idea of poetry before their conquest of China; also they imagined that it was only in China where the rules of this science had been formulated, and that the rest of the world resembled them. [40] Kien-long, one of the descendants of Kang-hi, has made good verse in Chinese. This prince has composed an historical poem on the conquest of the Eleuth, or _Oloth_ people, who, after having been a long time tributary to China, revolted. (_Mém. concernant les Chin._, t. i., p. 329.)