[18] See my Russia. See also Plato’s theory of Atlantida.
[19] No one now disputes the fact that the Celts are an Indo-European race. Jubainville says of them, “On peut comparer l’empire celtique à l’empire romain. Au sud il ne s’étendit pas autant; il ne comprit ni toute l’Espagne, ni toute l’Italie, ni toute la péninsule des Balkans, mais plus au nord il contenait une grande partie de l’empire d’Allemagne, une portion de l’empire d’Autriche et le région septentrionale de la grande Britagne, qui échappèrent toujours à la domination romaine, enfin, il comprenait l’Irelande où jamais les legions romains n’ont pénétré.” The same writer adds, “Le lieu d’origine des langues celtiques parâit avoir été un très petit pays, situé sur les bords du Rhin, du Main et du Danube, la où se trouvent aujourd’hui la Hesse-Darmstadt, le grand duché di Basle, de Wurtemburg, et la Bavière septentrionale.” Farther on he affirms that “la patrie des Cimbris était la Schléswig-Holstein et non la Crimeé” (because Tacitus mentions a people of that name as dwelling in Schleswig-Holstein in his day).
[20] See Garcia de la Riega, Galicia Antigua, 1904.
[21] Joseph Cornide, Las Cassiterides, 1790.
[22] Les Celtes, Paris, 1904.
[23] See Barros Sivelo. Hamilcar intended to make Spain his base of operations for the invasion of Italy. See Stone’s notes to Livy.
[24] See Livy, lib. 53, or rather its Table of Contents, for the book is lost.
[25] See Tables of the Capitoline Triumphes and other ancient documents.
[26] See Suetonius, and Plutarch, who wrote in his Life of Julius Cæsar: “We are told that when he was in Spain he bestowed some leisure hours in reading part of the history of Alexander, and was so much affected with it that he sat pensive a long time, and at last burst out into tears. As his friends were wondering what might be the reason, he said, ‘Do you think I have not sufficient cause for concern when Alexander at my age reigned over so many conquered countries, and I have not one glorious achievement to boast?’ From this principle it was that immediately upon his arrival in Spain he applied to business with great diligence, and, having added ten new cohorts to the twenty he received, then he marched against the Callaecians (Galicians) and Lusitanians, defeated them, and penetrated to the ocean, reducing nations by the way that had not felt the yoke.”
[27] I have been obliged to omit my chapter on Priscillian for want of space.