[24] The reader who does not know Latin may easily recognize the kindred forms in French, Italian, Spanish, etc.
[25] Mr. Max Müller calls it the terminational stage.
[26] Agone is possibly from a stronger form âgan, ‘to pass away.’
[27] To get the full sound of the th, this should be said not as we pronounce our article the (which really has the sound dhe), but like the first part of Thebes, theme, etc.
[28] Cf. the Greek klutos.
[29] Stephen, Lectures on the History of France.
[30] This is the theory of Aryan origins still most generally accepted. It has, however, been maintained by several philologists that there is no evidence of an Asiatic origin of the European nations.
[31] See Chapter I.
[32] Among the Iberians, however, the Celtic blood was much diluted with an infusion of that of an earlier Turanian race allied to the modern Basques.
[33] Or say, rather, the people of Italy. Only the Etruscans must probably be excepted from the category, and the Gauls, who subsequently settled themselves in Cisalpine Gaul.