[Footnote S: A parallel instance of the formation of a language by Roman colonies is the idiom of Moldavia; which, according to Prince Cantemir's account of that country, has still many traces of its Latin origin, and which, though engrafted upon the Dacian, and since upon the Sclavonian dialects of the Celtic, may still be considered as a sister language to that I am, here treating of.]
[Footnote T: Videre Rhaeti bella sub Alpibus
Drusum gerentem et Vindelici. HOR. lib. 4. Od. iv.
——————- immanesque Rhaetos
Auspiciis repulit secundis. Ibid. Od. xiv.
Fundat ab extremo flavos aquilone Suevos
Albis, et indomitum Rheni Caput. Luc. lib. ii. 52.
——————- Rhenumque minacem
Cornibus infractis. CLAUD. Laud. Stilich. lib. i. 220.]
[Footnote U: Horten. in Lucan, p. 163. edit. 1578. fol.]
[Footnote V: Sprech. p. 18. &c.]
[Footnote W: Strabo, lib. IV, sub. fin. Cluver. Ital. vet. lib. I. c. 16.]
[Footnote X: Julius Mons, Scheuchzer Iter. Alp. p. 114.]
[Footnote Y:
Rhaetica nunc praebent Thraciaque arma metum.
OVID. Trist.
lib. ii. 226. Devota morti pectora liberae.
HOR. 4. lib. Od. xiv.]
[Footnote Z: Sprech. p. 52-55.]
[Footnote AA: Sprech. p. 58.]
[Footnote AB: This privilege has at times been waved; but never without some plausible pretence, and a formal rescript acknowledging the exclusive right.]