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field of conflict is thus narrowed, and the dispute will be the 

 sooner decided in proportion to the closeness of the lists. If 

 there be any stout-hearted Teuton, who will persist in still claim- 

 ing these nations as of his immediate race, let him go over the 

 ground over which I have travelled, and select the Bergs, the 

 Hams, the Forts, the Bachs, the Dens, which must be still found 

 there, if those hills were peopled by his race. Tor, Wick, and 

 even Briga, are common to both races, and would, if brought 

 forward, prove nothing. One thiug, also, he must not do ; he 

 must not bring names from Bohemia, nor from the right bank of 

 the Danube, as far as Illyricum, nor from modern Hungary, nor 

 from the vicinity of the Cimbric Chersonese, as all these coun- 

 tries were once held by people of the Cumrian race. 



If then the Cumri and the Umbri were the same people, it 

 may be asked, what became of the letter C in the name of the 

 latter ? I cannot tell ; but I know that the initial x, or y was very 

 loose not only in the Greek, where we have Tata, and aia for the 

 earth zkm, and iav for going, xiyavu and i»avu for venio and inve- 

 nio, sXevdw and %eXsv0og for go and gait ; but also among the La- 

 tins, where we have codes and ocles (see Varo under the word) 

 for a one-eyed man, and Caulon and Aulon, significant of the same 

 thing in Magna Graecia. Among the Cumri the guttural is still 

 looser, as they drop it to express a difference even of gender, as 

 goleu, light, ei oleu, his light. But the Latins probably dropped 

 it, because the Greeks of the historical era wrote opfigizoi and op- 

 (Bgot, whence fashion prevailed, and the word became disguised. 

 In older times, the Greeks themselves wrote it xtftftegtoi, as we 

 find in the Odyssey. The mythos, by which the author of that 

 poem places them in utter darkness, only tells us that they were 

 placed in what was to him the extreme west. For as the east, 

 svgog, was the house of light iwg, so Zetpvgog, the west, was the house 

 of misty darkness (Zo<po$ n^ozig). Ephorus, 1 therefore, following 



1 Quoted by Strabo Lib. v. page 244. 

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