Note 135 — Chapter III · A REVIEW OF M. PAUL BATAILLARD’S REVIEWS

I am not a little surprised to see a scholar like Mr. Gladstone declaring that “Kadmos signifies a foreigner” (Homer: Primer.) The “Old One” with his sixteen letters is supposed by M. Freret (Canon Chronologique) to have settled at Bœotian Thebes in b.c. 1590, or some century and a half before Troy was founded (b.c. 1425).