534 Rey. Mr Wrtutams on one Source of the 
form, may be regarded as a certain proof of the presence of the 
race. In ancient Britain, we had Venta Belgarum, Winchester, 
Venta Silurum Caerwent, Venta Icenorum Caister, near Nor- 
wich. In Italy we have— 
Arx ' Car-ventana, in Latium ; 
> Tre-vent-um, now Trivento, in Samnium ; 
* Bene-vent-um ; 
Cas-ventum, in Umbria ; 
Vi-ventum, in Umbria ; 
Ver-entum, in Etruria, now Varentano , 
Vis-entium, do. do. Bisentino. 
This list might be increased indefinitely, but it will not be amiss 
to add— 
No-mentum an ancient city of Latium, 
and to compare it with Nu-mantia,’ the Novant ez, and Tri-noban- 
tes, of Britain: Asa prefix, it appears without the T, in the names 
' Supposed to have been situated on one of the summits of Algidus. The ad- 
jective Carventana, necessarily implies the existence at some period of a Caer-went, 
or Car-venta, in the vicinity. 
2 On coins this name, in Oscan characters, is Trebint-im ; similar names, both 
in Wales and Cornwall, will occur to persons acquainted with the locality. 
5] place Bene-vent-um under this head without scruple, without paying defe- 
rence to the story mentioned by Livy, Priny, and Festus, that before it became a 
Roman colony it was called Male-vent-um ; because we have coins of this city bear- 
ing the Oscan inscription “ BENEVENTOD,” a proof that such was its name be- 
fore it received a colony from Rome, and because there was another Bene-ventum 
between Brixa and Verona, in Cisalpine Gaul, and Bennaventa* in Britain. I may 
also add, that I look upon such words as Tarentum, &c. as pure Italian, and that 
it was the Greeks who formed imaginary nominatives, like Taras, &c. to suit their 
swn fables. Pavsanras informs us that Tarentum was “ a very considerable and 
opulent town before the arrival of Paatantuus and his Spartans.” 
* The Celtiberi were undoubtedly Cumri; Droporus Srcuxus even calls them 
by the name, ray 62 xiB2wy of Aovoilovo, &e.; but I have nothing to do with Spain at 
present. 
= Now Daventry. 
