"Much the same," he adds, "was the Ilissus." A deficiency of water was always a principal grievance in Attica, as we may learn from the laws of Solon relative to wells.
[4] Platon.Timaeus.

Clinton's Fasti Hellenici, vol.i., p.

5.
[5] According to some they were from India, to others from Egypt, to others again from Phoenicia.

They have been systematized into Bactrians, and Scythians, and Philistines--into Goths, and into Celts; and tracked by investigations as ingenious as they are futile, beyond the banks of the Danube to their settlements in the Peloponnese.

No erudition and no speculation can, however, succeed in proving their existence in any part of the world prior to their appearance in Greece.
[6] Sophoc.