Michael J Smith wrote:
> Exactly who are the people of Cettii/Ketioi? Was this a city or
> a tribal name? I wonder if there is any relation to the Biblical
> Kittim, which is thought to be the Old Testament term for Cyprus.
> Were the Cettii a part Sabine, part Latin population, or do we know
> their language? -Michael
>
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This is a good question. In which part of the world have been these
Cetti?
There is even a Christian genealogy ( Riese, Geogr. lat. min. Liber
generations, p. 161. 168).There the sons of "Iuvan" have been Elisan,
Tharsis, Cythis, Dodanim.
From the Elisan ( Elisan = in the ethnografic tabula of Moses=
pelasgian) there have been born the Siculi.
From Tharsis there have been forn the Hiberii and Tyrreni.
From Cythis have been born the Latini
From Dodanim have been forn teh people of Priam.
In the Argonautic saga, the Cythi are the people from the wide country
of "Aiete" the one who ruled so far , even over the Colchis, over a part
of Schythia and lands around Black Sea.
In Appoloniu Rhodiu, the region of Scythia which was under the rule of
Aiete, was called "Kutais gaya","Cytaea terra " (Appol. Rho. IV, 511).
Even the king has the epythete of "Kutaieos, Kutaios" and his capital
was somewhere on the Low Danube.
It is said, even by Homer, the inhabitants of Moesia over them the King
wass Telephos, even Homer call them Cetei (Keteioo).
Dio Chrisostomus -how I mentioned in the previous mail-give the Telephos
as the king of the Getae.
A pretty "recent" genealogy is to find at the polish historian Dlugos
( dead in 1480). In this biblichal version there is the following
relationship:
Iaphet-Gomer-Ascenas-Saramate ( who are called by Greeks "Reginos") and
from here we have 4 branches:
calabri, siculi, appuli, latini.
It seems these Cytii are to find somewhere in the neighbourhood of Low
Danube. Has someone else better locations from ancient myths?