This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...Latham hazards the theory that the "Britannica" of Tacitus was but a Latanised form of " Pryttisce" or " Prutskaja" in its Slavonic form, and, in fine, that these people were Lettish or Lithuanian. When Latham meets names such as "Treveri," "Triboci," the Celtic forms of the words, perhaps, do not convince him ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...Latham hazards the theory that the "Britannica" of Tacitus was but a Latanised form of " Pryttisce" or " Prutskaja" in its Slavonic form, and, in fine, that these people were Lettish or Lithuanian. When Latham meets names such as "Treveri," "Triboci," the Celtic forms of the words, perhaps, do not convince him altogether so much as the fact that St Jerome distinctly asserts regarding the Treveri, that they spoke the language of the Galatae of Phrygia, which we know to have been Celtic. These forms suggest the Cornish ones found in such names as Trelawney, &c. The origin of the name "German" has been a problem and likely will remain so. Some would have the name from the Gaelic, "gairm," to call, as signifying men who shouted in battle. That could scarcely be distinctive of any people in the days when "every battle of the warrior was with confused noise and garments rolled in blood." A better etymology is " Wehr-men "--guards. We have the word in Anglo-Saxon, "Wer"--a man, and in Moeso-Gothic, "aoir'--a man, evidently the Gaelic "fear," and the Latin "vir." That Tacitus used the word "bard," instead of the German, "scop" or "skald," as the name of the minstrels of those tribe inhabiting ancient Germania, is surely an undesigned proof of the prevalence of the Celtic language over Central Europe. One of the greatest difficulties in the Germania of Tacitus, is to explain who were the Cimbri. That these people occupied the Cimbric Chersonnese is a settled point. That they were Celts is highly probable, geographically isolated though they were from their brethren. Their name being but a Latinized form of the...
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