JAVAN, the fourth son of Japheth, was the father of the Ionians or Greeks, as well those who were in Greece, as those who were in the Isles and Continent of Asia minor, who were properly called Ionians. But anciently the people of Macedonia, Attica, Bœotia, and Achaia were called likewise Ionians. Homer in his Hymn in honour of Apollo, calls the inhabitants of Delos, Ionians. And the Scholiast on Aristophanes says, that the Barbarians call all the Greeks, Ionians1. Javan was the father of Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
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Scholiast. Aristoph. in Acarnan. Act. 1. Sc. 8. Ἴωνες γὰρ οἱ ᾿Αθηναῖοι πάντας τὰς Ἕλληνας Ἴωνας οἱ βάρβαροι ἐκάλουν. * ——————Crocodilon adorat Pars hæc, illa pavet saturam serpentibus Ibin. Juv. Sat. xv. † Ægyptiorum morem, says Cicero, quis ignorat? quorum imbutæ mentes pravitatis erroribus quamvis carnificinam prius subierint, quàm Ibim, aut felim, aut canem, aut crocodilum violent: quorum etiam si imprudentes quidpiàm fecerint, pœnam nullam recusent. Tusc. Disp. l. v. As also in his first Book de Naturâ Deorum, c. 29. And Herod. l. 11. c. 65. Ὃς δ’ ἂν Ἶβιν ἢ ἱέρηκα ἀποκτείνῃ, ἤντε ἑκὼν, ἤντε ἀέκων, τεθνάναι ἀνάγκη. ↩