At the time of Cæsar the tribe occupying the neighbourhood of modern London were known as the Trinovantes,[100] and as these people can hardly be supposed to have adopted their title for the purpose of flattering a poetic fiction in far Wales, the name Trinovant lends some support to the Bardic tradition that London was once termed Troy Novant or New Troy. Argonauts of a later day christened their new-found land New York, and this unchangingly characteristic tendency of the emigrant no doubt accounts for the perplexing existence of several cities each named "Troy". That many shiploads of young argonauts from one or another Troy reached the coasts of Cornwall is implied by the fact that in Cornwall _tre's_ were seemingly so numerous that _tre_ became the generic term for home or homestead. It is proverbial that by _tre_, _pol_, and _pen_, one may know the Cornish men. [Illustration: FIG. 8.--Welsh Shepherd's "Troy Town." From _Prehistoric London_ (Gordon, E. O.).] [Illustration: FIG. 9.--Cretan maze-coins and British mazes at Winchester, Alkborough, and Saffron Walden. From _Prehistoric London_ (Gordon, E. O.). [_To face p. 87._] Borlase, in his glossary of Cornish words, gives both _tre_ and _dre_ as meaning dwelling; the Welsh for Troy is Droia, the Greek was Troie, and this invariable interchange of _t_ and _d_ is again apparent in _derry_, the Irish equivalent for the Cornish _tre_. The standard definition of _true_ is _firm_ or _certain_; whence it may appear that the primeval "Troys" were, so to speak, the permanent addresses of the wandering families and tribes. These _Troys_ or _trues_ were maybe caves--whence _trou_, the French for hole or cave; maybe the foot of a big tree, preferably the sacred oak-tree, which was alike sacred in Albion and Albania. _Tree_ is the same word as _true_, and _dru_, the Sanscrit for tree, is the same word as _dero_ or _derry_, the Irish for oak tree, as in London_derry_, Kil_dare_, etc. The Druids have been generally supposed to have derived their title of _Druid_ from the _drus_ or oak tree under which they worshipped, but it is far more probable that the tree was named after the Druids, and that _druid_ (the accusative and dative of _drui_, a magician or sorcerer), is radically the Persian _duru_, meaning _a good holy man_, the Arabic _deri_, meaning _a wise man_.[101] But apart from the generic term _tre_ or _dre_ there are numerous "Troy Towns" and "Draytons" in Britain. Part of Rochester is called Troy Town, which may be equated with the _Duro-_ of _Duro_brevis the ancient name of Rochester. There is a river Dray in Thanet and the ancient name for Canterbury was _Duro_vern. Seemingly all over Britain the term Troy Town was applied to the turf-cut mazes of the downs and village greens, and the hopscotch of the London urchin is said to be the Troy game of the Welsh child.