Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

by T. Rice Holmes

[1773] The Mediterranean Race, p. 263.

[1774] See p. 110, supra.

[1775] ‘The most tenable hypothesis may be said to be that the Picts were non-Aryans, whom the first Celtic migrations found already settled here ... the Picts were the descendants of the Aborigines’ (The Welsh People, 1902, pp. 13-4).

[1776] Incerti Pan. Constantio Caesari, c. 11 (XII Panegyrici Latini recensuit Aemilius Baehrens, 1874).

[1777] See pp. 410, 438, n. 3, infra.

[1778] See J. Rhys, Celtic Britain, 1904, pp. 215-6. Similarly the Latins retained qu, as in equus, while the Greeks, as in ἵππος, changed it into p.

[1779] Rice Holmes, Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul, 1899, p. 299, note; E. W. B. Nicholson, Keltic Researches, 1904, pp. 6-7.

[1780] Ib., pp. 6, 128, 149, 167.

[1781] Rev. celt., xi, 1890, p. 377; xx, 1899, pp. 108-9. In the latest volume of his review (xxvii, 1906, p. 107) M. d’Arbois reiterates his dissent, asking whether Britain, Thames, and London are words of Anglo Saxon origin.

[1782] Ib., xxv, 1904, pp. 351-3; xxvii, 1906, pp. 107-8.