Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

by T. Rice Holmes

[2043] Ib., p. 223.

[2044] Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion, 1895-6, p. 69.

[2045] W. F. Skene, The Highlanders of Scotland, 1902, p. 383.

[2046] Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion, 1895-6, pp. 65-6.

[2047] The Races of Britain, p. 29.

[2048] Incerti Pan. Constantio Caesari, c. 11 (published in XII Panegyrici Latini recensuit Aemilius Baehrens, 1874).—Britannia natio etiam tunc rudis, et solis Pictis modo et Hibernis assueta hostibus adhuc seminudis, facile Romanis armis signisque cessit. Prof. Haverfield (The Romanization of Roman Britain, p. 28) apparently disbelieves that there was any Irish invasion of Britain as early as the third century; but see Y Cymmrodor, xiv, 1901, p. 102.

[2049] Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion, 1895-6, pp. 70-1.

[2050] See pp. 411-2, supra; also M. d’Arbois’s Principaux auteurs de l’ant. à consulter sur l’hist. des Celtes, p. 69.

[2051] Les Celtes, p. 17.

[2052] I say ‘substantially’ because M. d’Arbois, unlike Professor Rhys, holds that at the time of the Goidelic invasion the Celtic language was everywhere one and the same.