mother-land of H;her Ensbaldu®ii||i| But we shall be disappointed
iu any attempt to toaee the . kindred • this-race
among the old Italic nations> or*-'to find any dialect akin to
the Euskarian, among the known languages of the Italian
tribes.*
* An insurmountable difficulty opposes, as it has been observed by alate writer,
the'impposition-newly-maintained, that the Celts'preceded the Tberians_in the pos-?
session of Spain. Had that been the fact, valiant bands of hardy Celtic mountaineers
coaid never have been expelled from, the -fastnesses of, the Pyrenees by the lesg
warlike Iberians. Yet this whole tract of mountains was occupied solely by tribes
of the pure race, of the Euskaldunes. See Diefenbach’s VersuCh einer genealo-
gischen Geschichte der Kelten. * Stuttgart, 1840.
CHAPTER III.
OF THE CELTIC RACE.
]yjfgGeneral Survey.—Extension o f the Celtic
Ra$W—Eeltic Dialects.
T he Gefwrace,.termed C'eltij or KeXrol, and Galatae^ by the
Hlfeeks, and by Roman writersjC&tse and Galli, or Gauls; was in
ff©fmer1 f the wovkilMs widely spread; and'acted as conpart
on the theatre of th ^Europe an nations as the;
^German or^efl&prui2 peopld'fi!l$7b performed* in latertffife^ * To
that Md^^adcordm^to tlies testimony of ancient writers, be-
^ ^ r e a atone period not only the whole country reaching in
Ppaulfrbm the Mediterranean and tBef Garonne -to the Rhine,
biM likewise many other parts of Europel8trM Asia. Of Spain,
as ’we' have already ;seenf they appear to have -possessed a considerable
‘ part, comprehending, not only the central provinces,
* By most Greek writers the terms KsXroi and 1’a^.drai, which may be considered
as corresponding with the Celtse and Galli of Latin authors, are used as in-;
ihrchangeable. DiodOrus, however, attempted to'ffistinguish fbeir application. He
says that the KsXfoi, Celti, were properly the inhabitants of the inland country
above Marseilles and the districts near the Alps and the Pyrenees, thus making the
limits of Celtica Proper nearly those of the Roman province. This we shall see was
the opinion of some geographers, including Strabo. “ The people of the northern
parts, of Gaul towards the Ocean' and the Hercynian forest, and the. country
reaching thence eastward, towards Scythia,”—meaning evidently the southern parts
of Germany,—“ are called by the Greeks ‘ raXd.7^ t.’~r?The Romans, however,
included all these nations under the last name, as a general appellation.” Diodorus
means the name of Galli or Gauls, which the Romans used generally for all
the natives of Gaul. I t is plain that this distinction laid down by Diodorus ik
founded on no ethnographical limitation. A11 that we learn from it, is the original
•local application of the name Celti. , See Diodor^Sic. lib.'v. cap, 32.
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