Doubtless, as our traditions state, the first adventurers on the sea who reached these shores were oft-times _terrors_ and "the dread of Europe". To the Tyrrhenes may probably be assigned the generic term _tyrranos_ which, however, meant primarily not a tyrant as now understood, but an autocrat or lord. "Clad in their long dress who could equal them?" wondered a British Bard, and it may be that the long robes figured herewith are the very moulds of form which created such a powerful impression among our predecessors. The word _attire_ points to the possibility that at one time Tyre set the fashions for the latest _tire_, and like modern Paris fired the contemporary world of dress. In connection with the word _dress_, which is radically _dre_, it is noticeable that the Britons were conspicuously dressy men; indeed, Sir John Rhys, discussing the term Briton, Breton, or Brython, seriously maintains that "the only Celtic words which can be of the same origin are the Welsh vocables _brethyn_, 'cloth and its congeners,' in which case the Britons may have styled themselves 'cloth-clad,' in contradistinction to the skin-wearing neolithic nation that preceded them". [Illustration: FIG. 14.--From _The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria_ (Dennis, G.).] We know from Homer that the Trojans had a pretty taste in tweeds, and that their waistcoats in particular were subjects of favourable remark:-- The enter'd each a bath, and by the hands Of maidens laved, and oil'd, and cloath'd again With shaggy mantles, and _resplendent vests_, Sat both enthroned at Menelaus' side.