rer rs 
Non-Hellenic portion of the Latin Language. oll 
recurring to the affirmed consanguinity of the Umbri and the 
“ Veteres Galli,” to account for a circumstance so striking as the 
confession on the part of the Romans, “that the Aidui were 
their brothers and kinsmen.”’ As this name was repeatedly con- 
ferred upon them by solemn decrees of the Senate, a name which, 
to the best of my recollection, was never conferred except upon 
nations supposed to have been connected with them by blood, 
it is a fair inference that a case in proof of a common origin 
was satisfactorily made out, before an honour of so high a nature 
could have been bestowed upon people of barbarian, and what 
was more hateful, of Gallic race... The Arverni, the neighbours 
of the Aidui, and who, from the natural strength of their country, 
might be expected to represent the “ Veteres Galli,” were, at a 
later period, allowed to assume the same honours, as we read in 
Lucan :? 
«« Arvernique ausi Latio se fingere fratres 
F ; Pe; 
Sanguine ab Iliaco populi. 
It was undoubtedly in this common claim to a Trojan origin, 
a claim eventually to be traced to a common religion and reli- 
gious rites, that we are to recognize the principle, which induced 
the Veneti, the Romans, the Arverni, and the Cumrians of 
our island, who, from the remotest antiquity, traced themselves 
1 Imprimis quod Aiduos fratres consanguineosque seepenumero ab Senatu ap- 
pellatos, videbat.—Lib. i. cap. 43. 
2 Docebat etiam quam veteres, quamque juste cause necessitudinis ipsis cum 
ABduis intercederent : que Senattis consulta, quoties, quamque honorifice, in eos 
facta essent.—Lib. i. cap. 43. 
“Qu ecly ev rg0g Pawouous |ov ovyryevercey xan Pidsoy rqy meres Toy nab nus xgovuy Oto- 
juevovocy.— Di1oporus SICULUS, Lib. 4. p. 210. 
Oi be Edovor nou cuyyevers row Paywouray ovoneZovlo.— ST RABO, 1. 192. 
3 Book i. ver. 427 ; see also the testimony of Sripon1us Aprortrnanis to the same 
effect. 
