Note 608 — Chapter XII · HEATHENDOM.
Reading edition
“Celebrant carminibus antiquis.... Tuisconem deum terrâ editum et filium Mannum, originem gentis conditoresque.” Germ. ii. So sung the earliest Greeks:
ἀντίθεον δὲ Πέλασγον ἐν ὑψικομοῖσιν ὅρεσσι
γαῖα μέλαιν’ ἀνέηκεν ἵνα θνήτων γένος εἴη.