534 Rev. Mr Williams 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 ; 



2 Tre-vent-um, now Trivento, in Samnium ; 



3 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, 4 the Novant ae, and Tri-noban- 

 tes, of Britain: As a prefix, it appears without the T, in the names 



1 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. 



3 I place Bene-vent-um under this head without scruple, without paying defe- 

 rence to the story mentioned by Livy, Pliny, 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,' n 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 

 jwn fables. Pausanias informs us that Tarentum was " a very considerable and 

 opulent town before the arrival of Phalanthus and his Spartans."" 



4 The Celtiberi were undoubtedly Cumri ; Diodorus Siculus even calls them 

 by the name, ruv ds x,if/,f3guv oi Aousflavoi, &c. ; but I have nothing to do with Spain at 

 present. 



* Now Daventry. 



