[Footnote Q: _Lavin_ (Lavinium), _Sus_ (Susa), _Zernetz_ (Cerneto), _Ardetz_ (Ardea), &c.] [Footnote R: Sprech. p. 10.] [Footnote S: A parallel instance of the formation of a language by Roman colonies is the idiom of Moldavia; which, according to Prince Cantemir's account of that country, has still many traces of its Latin origin, and which, though engrafted upon the Dacian, and since upon the Sclavonian dialects of the Celtic, may still be considered as a sister language to that I am, here treating of.] [Footnote T: Videre Rhaeti bella _sub_ Alpibus Drusum gerentem et Vindelici. HOR. lib. 4. Od. iv. ------------- immanesque Rhaetos Auspiciis _repulit_ secundis. Ibid. Od. xiv. Fundat ab extremo flavos aquilone Suevos Albis, et _indomitum Rheni Caput_. Luc. lib. ii. 52. ------------- Rhenumque minacem _Cornibus infractis_. CLAUD. Laud. Stilich. lib. i. 220.] [Footnote U: Horten. in Lucan, p. 163. edit. 1578. fol.] [Footnote V: Sprech. p. 18. &c.] [Footnote W: Strabo, lib. IV, sub. fin. Cluver. Ital. vet. lib. I. c. 16.] [Footnote X: _Julius Mons_, Scheuchzer Iter. Alp. p. 114.] [Footnote Y: Rhaetica nunc praebent Thraciaque arma metum. OVID. Trist. lib. ii. 226. Devota morti pectora liberae. HOR. 4. lib. Od. xiv.] [Footnote Z: Sprech. p. 52-55.] [Footnote AA: Sprech. p. 58.] [Footnote AB: This privilege has at times been waved; but never without some plausible pretence, and a formal rescript acknowledging the exclusive right.] [Footnote AC: The League _Cadéa_, or of the _House of God_, so called from the cathedral of the bishopric of Coire, which is situated in its capital.] [Footnote AD: Canitie griseoque amictu venerandi.--Memores adhuc antiquae libertatis. Sprech. p. 189.] [Footnote AE: The following barbarous distich is sometimes inscribed on the arms of the three leagues. Foedera sunt cana, cana fides, cana libertas: Haec tria sub uno continentur corpore Rhaeto.] [Footnote AF: See Dr. Percy's preface to his translation of Mallet's Northern Antiquities, p. xxii. where this question is more amply discussed.] [Footnote AG: Conf. Mem. des Inscrip. tom. xxiv. p. 608.] [Footnote AH: Bonamy, v. Mem. des Inscrip. l. c.] [Footnote AI: _Tapferdà_, Trapferkeit, Bravery; _Nardà_, Narheit, Folly; _Klinot_, Kleinod, a Jewel; _Graf_, Graf, a Count; _Baur_, Baur, a Peasant, &c.] [Footnote AJ: Rivet, Hist. Litt. de la France, tom. vii. p. 1. et seq.] [Footnote AK: Mem. des Inscrip. tom. xxiv. p. 594.] [Footnote AL: Bullet, Mem. de la Langue Celtique, tom. i. p. 23.] [Footnote AM: Mem. des Inscrip. tom. xxiv. p. 603.] [Footnote AN: Mem. des. Inscrip. tom. xv. p. 575. et seq.] [Footnote AO: Praef. Gloss. n. xiii.] [Footnote AP: Du Chesne, Hist. Franc. tom. ii. p. 374.] [Footnote AQ: No. I.] [Footnote AR: Eloq. Ital. p. 44.]