[Footnote 63: Tacitus, 'Annals,' xiv. 30. See p. 154.] [Footnote 64: Pliny, 'Nat. Hist.' xxix. 12.] [Footnote 65: See Brand, 'Popular Antiquities,' under _Ovum Anguinum_. He adds that _Glune_ is the Irish for glass.] [Footnote 66: Lampridius, in his life of Alexander Severus, tells us of a "Druid" sorceress who warned the Emperor of his approaching doom. Another such "Druidess" is said to have foretold Diocletian's rise. See Coulanges, '_Comme le Druidisme a disparu_,' in the _Revue Celtique_, iv. 37.] [Footnote 67: See Professor Rhys, 'Celtic Britain,' p. 70. The Professor's view that the "schismatical" tonsure of the Celtic clergy, which caused such a stir during the evangelization of England, was a Druidical survival, does not, however, seem probable in face of the very pronounced antagonism between those clergy and the Druids. That tonsure was indeed ascribed by its Roman denouncers to Simon Magus [see above], but this is scarcely a sufficient foundation for the theory.] [Footnote 68: They may very possibly have been connected with the Veneti of Venice at the other extremity of "the Gauls."] [Footnote 69: See p. 37.] [Footnote 70: Caesar, 'Bell. Gall.' iii. 9, 13.] [Footnote 71: Elton, 'Origins of English Hist.,' p. 237. Though less massive, these vessels are built much as the Venetian. But it is just as probable they may really be "picts." See p. 232.] [Footnote 72: This opening of Britain to continental influences may perhaps account for Posidonius having been able to make so thorough a survey of the islands. See p. 36.] [Footnote 73: Elton ('Origins of English Hist.') conjectures that these tribes did not migrate to Britain till after Caesar's day. But there is no evidence for this, and my view seems better to explain the situation.] [Footnote 74: Solinus (A.D. 80) says of Britain, "_alterius orbis nomen mereretur_." This passage is probably the origin of the Pope's well-known reference to St. Anselm, when Archbishop of Canterbury, as "_quasi alterius orbis antistes_."] [Footnote 75: A Roman legion at this date comprised ten "cohorts," _i.e._ some six thousand heavy-armed infantry, besides a small light-armed contingent, and an attached squadron of three hundred cavalry. Each of Caesar's transports must thus have carried from one hundred and fifty to two hundred men, and at this rate the eighteen cavalry vessels (reckoning a horse as equivalent to five men, the usual proportion for purposes of military transport) would suffice for his two squadrons.] [Footnote 76: An ancient ship could not sail within eight points of the wind (see Smith, 'Voyage of St. Paul'). Thus a S.W. breeze, while permitting Caesar to leave Boulogne, would effectually prevent these vessels from working out of Ambleteuse.] [Footnote 77: Hence the name Dubris = "the rivers."]