N on- Hellenic portion of the Latin Language. 511 



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 vEdui were 

 their brothers and kinsmen." 1 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. 2 The Arverni, the neighbours 

 of the iEdui, 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 : 3 



" Arvernique ausi Latio se fingere fratres 

 Sanguine ab Iliaco populi. 11 



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 iEduos fratres consanguineosque saepenumero ab Senatu ap- 

 pellatos, videbat. — Lib. i. cap. 43. 



2 Docebat etiam quam veteres, quamque justas causae necessitudinis ipsis cum 

 JSduis intercederent : quae Senatus consulta, quoties, quamque honorifice, in eos 

 facta essent. — Lib. i. cap. 43. 



'ilv tsliv h Tgos Pu/Acuovg s%pv gvyytvuuv xai <pi\iuv rriv /"-£%£< tuv -/.ad' ^a{ yjiovw) d/o- 

 pivouauv. — Diodorus Siculus, Lib. 4. p. 210. 



O/ hi 'Edouoi %au ewyytvas ruv Pw/Aa/wv ovopafyvlo. — Strabo, 1. 192. 



3 Book i. ver. 427 ; see also the testimony of Sidonius Appollinaris to the same 

 effect. 



