[38] “La Gallega,” Nave Capitaina de Colon, by C. Garsia de la Riega, 1897.
[39] Lopez Ferreiro, El Priscilianismo, 1878.
[40] Laborde, after dividing the history of Spain into four great epochs, says, “Dans la première époque” (under the Carthaginians and the Romans) “les Espagnols font partie du grand système qui gouvernait le monde, mais plutot alliés que sujets des Romains, se civilisant comme eux et non par eux, ils les égalèrent dans presque toutes les connaissances utiles, et furent a la fois le soutien et la richesse de leur empire.”
[41] Comision de Monumentos.
[42] Dr. Macias points out that the change of i into e in the name of the city was probably governed by some law of euphony according to which not only was the final long i changed into long e but also the short i in the middle of the word to the short e, as in sinu, sino, pilo, pele, minus, menos.
[43] The name Sueve, Suevi (Anglo-Saxon, Swaefas; Modern German, Schwabe), was a generic appellation, like that of the body of distinct tribes who composed the Allemannic confederacy; the name of Suevi was frequently interchanged with that of Allemanni by ancient writers. See Hampson’s Essay on King Alfred’s “Orosius.” The Sueves had come to Galicia from the territory stretching between the Rhine and the Elbe.
[44] Arian professed that the Son was not equal or co-substantial with the Father. See Gibbon, vol. iv. ch. xxxvii.
[45] Quoted by Dr. Macias from Hist. de los Heterod. Espanoles, vol. i. p. 123.
[46] Gibbon quotes many lines from Idatius, and calls him Spain’s most eloquent historian.
[47] Ordination was not allowed before the age of twenty-five.