Memoirs of the Celts or Gauls / By Joseph Ritson.

  • Ritson, Joseph, 1752-1803.
Date:
1827
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of the Celts or Gauls / By Joseph Ritson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    24/392 (page 6)
    CHAP. II. Of the proper Country of the Celts. Herodotus^ the most ancient of historians, and who, first of all, mentions this people, says, the river Ister,* beginning from the Celts (KsXroi, Celtce), and the city Pyrene, divides mid Europe, the Celts, however, being beyond the pillars of Her- cules, bordering upon the Cynesians {Kwioamcn, Cynesiis), the last of all in Europe, inhabiting to the west; and, having measured all Europe, as far as the Istrians, a colony of the Milesians, flow¬ ing into the sea of the Euxine-Pontus, is there ended.For the Ister, he says again, measures all Europe, its beginning being taken out of the * The Ister is the Danube, which Diodorus (B. v. C. 2), reckons among the rivers of Gaul. It is likewise mentioned by Arrian, as the most considerable river in Europe, which washes the amplest tract of land, and flows through the most war¬ like nations, in the first place, through the Celtic, in which, also, its springs rise. (B. i. C. 3.) -^B. ii. This relation of the venerable father of history abounds, unfortunately, with two capital errors; for neither was Fyren6 a city, nor does the Danube take its rise in the mountain of that name.