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varii : atque ex eo argumenta : nam rntilse Calecloniam habitantium 

 comae, magni artus Germanicam origiuem asseveraut. Silururu colorati 

 vultus et torti plerumque criues, et posita contra Hispaniam, Iberos 

 veteres trajecisse, easque sedes occupasse, fidem faciunt. Proximi 

 Gallis et similes sunt ; seu duraute originis vi, seu procurrentibus in 

 diversa terris, positio cceli corporibus habitum dedit. In universum 

 tamea sestimauti, Gallos vicinum solum occupasse, credibile est ; eorum 

 sacra deprehendas, superstitionum persuasione ; sermo baud multum. 

 diversus." l 



This passage, it will be observed, contaiDS statements 

 as to facts, and certain conclusions deduced from these 

 facts. The matters of fact asserted are : firstly, that the 

 inhabitants of Britain exhibit much diversity in their 

 physical characters ; secondly, that the Caledonians are 

 red-haired and large-limbed, like the Germans ; thirdly, 

 that the Silures have curly hair and dark complexions, 

 like the people of Spain ; fourthly, that the British 

 people nearest Gaul resemble the " Galli." 



Tacitus, therefore, states positively what the Caledo- 

 nians and Silures were like ; but the interpretation of 

 what he says about the other Britons must depend upon 

 what we learn from other sources as to the characters of 

 these " Galli." Here the testimony of " divus Julius " 

 comes in with great force and appropriateness. Csesar 

 writes : 



*' Britannise pars interior ab iis incolitur, quos natos in insula ipsi 

 inemoria proditum dicunt : marituma pars ab iis, qui predse ac belli 

 inferendi causa ex Belgio trausierant ; qui onmes fere iis nominibus 

 civitatum appellantur quibus orti ex civitatibus eo pervenerunt, et 

 bello inlato ibi permanserunt atque agros colere eaeperuut." 2 



From these passages it is obvious that in the opinion 

 of Csesar and Tacitus, the southern Britons resembled 

 the northern Gauls, and especially the Belgse ; and the 

 evidence of Strabo is decisive as to the characters in 

 which the two people resembled one another : " The men 



1 Taciti Agricola, c. 11. 2 De Bello Gallico, v. 12. 



