[2742] Röm. Gesch., iii, 1889, p. 270, note (Eng. trans., v, 1894, p. 63, note).
[2743] Geogr., iv, 5, § 2.
[2744] See pp. 577-9, infra.
[2745] Rev. arch., nouv. sér., viii, 1863, pp. 307-8.
[2746] ... the spirits of the dead ‘stretched out their hands in longing for the further shore’ (Aen., vi, 314).
[2747] Zeitschrift für allgemeine Erdkunde, xviii, 1865, p. 164.
[2748] (They also wear the skins of wild beasts), ‘the riparian tribes in a careless fashion, those of the interior with more elegance’ (c. 17).
[2749] As a matter of fact, if the Portus Itius was the estuary of the Liane, there was an ‘objet disjonctif’ between it and Ambleteuse, namely, the headland north of Boulogne harbour.
[2750] Creuly also observes (Rev. arch., nouv. sér., viii, 1863, p. 307) that, while Ambleteuse was 31 Roman miles from Fort Sutherland on Romney Marsh, Boulogne was 36. But Caesar, as I shall prove (pp. 622-44), did not land on Romney Marsh; and the futility of arguments of this kind has been already pointed out (pp. 557-8).
[2751] It is worth noting that while Creuly pins his faith to Ambleteuse, he is not so foolish as to ask us to believe that Caesar’s 800 ships found room there. They anchored, he tells us (p. 310), in the roadstead. But Caesar says expressly (B. G., v, 2, § 3; 5. § 2) that they assembled in the Portus Itius.