Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

by T. Rice Holmes

[1140] De divin., i, 41, § 90. Cf. my Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul, 1899, p. 532, n. 13.

[1141] H. Gaidoz, Études de mythol. gaul.,—Le dieu gaul. du soleil, p. 91. Cf. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, ii, 1903, pp. 252, 254.

[1142] De his eandem fere quam reliquae gentes habent opinionem. B. G., vi, 17, § 2.

[1143] See Rev. des études anc., vi, 1904, p. 329. Cf. Sir A. Lyall, Asiatic Studies, i, 1899, pp. 2-3, 6.

[1144] See W. Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites, 1901, pp. 16-8, 29, 253-6, 263.

[1145] See pp. 273 n. 7, 284, infra, and G. Boissier, La rel. des Romains, i, 1892, pp. 335, 340-1.

[1146] Folk-Lore, xvii, 1906, pp. 32, 324. See Mr. A. B. Cook’s series of articles in the same volume and in the first number of vol. xviii.

[1147] W. Warde Fowler, The Roman Festivals, 1899, p. 333.

[1148] Ib., p. 347. Cf. W. Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites, 1901, p. 64.

[1149] J. Rhys, Celtic Heathendom, p. 49; G. Dottin, La rel. des Celtes, p. 12. Mercury was also reverenced more than any other god by the Germans of whom Tacitus wrote (Germ., 9).