Monuments were often built on the sea-coast, and of a considerable height, so as to serve as watch-towers or land marks. See my notes to my prose translations of the "Odyssey," ii. p. 21, or on Eur. "Alcest." vol. i. p. 240. 106 --_Zeleia,_ another name for Lycia. The inhabitants were greatly devoted to the worship of Apollo. See Muller, "Dorians," vol. i. p. 248. 107 --_Barbarous tongues._ "Various as were the dialects of the Greeks--and these differences existed not only between the several tribes, but even between neighbouring cities--they yet acknowledged in their language that they formed but one nation were but branches of the same family. Homer has 'men of other tongues:' and yet Homer had no general name for the Greek nation."--Heeren, "Ancient Greece," Section vii. p. 107, sq. _ 108 The cranes._ "Marking the tracts of air, the clamorous cranes Wheel their due flight in varied ran