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contained 300,000 fighting men; while they had with them a 

 much larger number of women and children. The latter fact 

 shows that they intended to settle in the south ; but meanwhile 

 they unscrupulously plundered the tribes whom they passed 

 through. Four consular armies, besides lesser forces, were 

 utterly defeated by the barbarians, usually by the Kimbri in 

 particular ; but Kimbri and Te atones were alike out-generalled 

 by the famous Caius Marius, and were utterly annihilated, the 

 women putting an end to their lives when they saw their 

 husbands slain.* 



■ The record of Cimbric settlement in Denmark or its near 

 neighbourhood would seem to have been retained up to the 

 present hour by a seaport on the southern coast of Sweden 

 which from remote times has borne the name of Cimbrishamn, 

 or the Cimbri's Haven ; and in the little fishing village of 

 Kivik, close by, there still stands an ancient monument " which 

 has been supposed to be Keltic, but which is considered by 

 Professor S. Mllson to represent ceremonies of Phoenician Baal- 

 Worship/'t That the Kimbri were of Keltic race we shall 

 presently prove, and that the Kelts, as distinct from the Teutons, 

 had a worship allied to the Phoenician is coming more and 

 more to be believed ; but, if the monument be truly Phoenician, 

 not Keltic, it tends to show how early those regions were visited 

 by ships from the East, and how Homer may have got his 

 information about the northern Kimmerioi, or Kimbroi. 



Moving again to the west, we come in this land of ours to 

 a people who from time immemorial have called themselves 

 Cymri or Gymri (pronounc^ed Kiimri and Giimri) and whom 

 Englishmen proper know as Welsh, simply because to their 

 early forefathers, as to the Germans now, Welsh meant foreign. 

 The double form of the native name is accounted for by the fact 

 that in the Welsh tongue the final letter of one word often 

 ■determines whether the initial sound of the next shall be k or 

 hard g (the same rule prevailing as to d and t) ; but, if the 

 Welsh too belong to Gonier's family, we can the more readily 

 understand how portions of this should in one country have 

 been known as Kimmerioi and in another as Gimmiraa. And 

 as for the h in Cimbri, or Kimbri, that is only like the euphonic 

 h that the French and we English have inserted in member 

 (once the Latin numemts) and that we have slipped into our own 



* Smith, Shorter Hist. Rome^ et i^cissim. 



t Murray's Handbook of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (1871). 

 Christianstad." 



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