[Footnote 55:  ‘De Bell, Gall.’ vi. 16.]

[Footnote 56:  ‘Hist.’ v. 31.]

[Footnote 57:  ‘Celtic Britain,’ p. 69.]

[Footnote 58:  ‘Nat.  Hist.’ xvi. 95.]

[Footnote 59:  So Caesar, ‘De Bell.  Gall.’ vi. 17.]

[Footnote 60:  Pliny, ‘Nat.  Hist.’ xxiv. 62.  Linnaeus has taken selago as his name for club-moss, but Pliny here compares the herb to savin, which grows to the height of several feet. Samolum is water-pimpernel in the Linnaean classification.  Others identify it with the pasch-flower, which, however, is far from being a marsh plant.]

[Footnote 61:  Suetonius (A.D. 110), ‘De xii.  Caes.’ v. 25.]

[Footnote 62:  Pliny, ‘Nat.  Hist.’ xxx. 3.]

[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.”]