Memoirs of the Celts or Gauls / By Joseph Ritson.

  • Ritson, Joseph, 1752-1803.
Date:
1827
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    nymous or^ plainly, the same words, pronounced, only, in a manner different from the Celts and the Latins: which, how difficultly often are spoken by foreign nations, Pomponius Mela is able to tell us, who when he had made mention of Taunus and Rheticon, Germanic-mountains, of the rest added these words ; unless the names of those which it is difficult to utter with a Roman mouth.”? According to Pomponius Mela, the region, which the Celts inhabited, was called comata Gallia: of the people were three principal names, and they were terminated by large rivers. For, from the Pyrenean [mountain] to the Garonne was Aquitain 5 from it, to the Seine were the Celts, thence to the Rhine belonged the Belgians. Of the Aquitains the most famous were the Ariscans, of the Celts the ^duans, of the Belgians the Treviri.^ Pliny says, all Gallia comata, called by one name, was divided into three kinds of people, distinguished, chiefly, by rivers ; from the Scal- dis (Scheld) to the Seine, Belgium ; from that to the’ Garonne Celtica, and the same Lyonese. Thence to the stage of the Pyrenean-mount, 7 G. W. B. i, C. 1; Schoepflin, p. 27, 28, 8 B, iii, C. 2.