Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

by T. Rice Holmes

[2703] B. G., v, 13, § 2.

[2704] See pp. 561-3, infra.

[2705] See pp. 554-5, supra.

[2706] Archaeologia, xxxiv, 1852, p. 235.

[2707] Speaking of Druidism, Caesar says (B. G., vi, 13, §§ 11-2) disciplina in Britannia reperta atque inde in Galliam translata existimatur, et nunc qui diligentius eam rem cognoscere volunt plerumque illo discendi causa proficiscuntur. With this word the chapter ends; but it is undeniable that those who wished to study the tenets of Druidism did go to Britain.

[2708] Ib., iv, 21, §§ 3-4.—Ipse cum omnibus copiis in Morinos proficiscitur, quod inde erat brevissimus in Britanniam traiectus. Huc naves undique ex finitimis regionibus et quam superiore aestate ad Veneticum bellum fecerat classem iubet convenire.

[2709] C. J. Caesaris comm., &c., p. 278, note.

[2710] Lewin (The Invasion of Britain, &c., 1862, pp. v-vi), justly ridicules Airy’s desperate contention (Athenæum, Sept. 10, 1859, p. 337) that in his locis is ‘a studiously indefinite expression’.

[2711] B. G., iv, 22, § 1.

[2712] Archaeologia, xxxiv, 1852, p. 235.