An essay towards illustrating the ancient history of the Britannic Isles containing an explanation of the names Belgæ, Scythæ, Celtæ, Brittanni, Albanich, Erinnich, Caledonii, Siluri, &c., &c. : Intended as a preface to a work entitled, A vindication of the ancient history of Ireland / By C.V. [ie. Charles Vallancey].

  • Vallancey, Charles, 1721-1812.
Date:
1786
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Credit: An essay towards illustrating the ancient history of the Britannic Isles containing an explanation of the names Belgæ, Scythæ, Celtæ, Brittanni, Albanich, Erinnich, Caledonii, Siluri, &c., &c. : Intended as a preface to a work entitled, A vindication of the ancient history of Ireland / By C.V. [ie. Charles Vallancey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    __ f- AI inculto Efpanol fu tributario tambien le llamo Barbaro, i agora es nombre de ignorantes ordinario. (Lupercio Leonardo, p. 74).. In the following pages, it will appear, that the body of Magogian Scythians, of whom we treat, were a polifhed people before they left Alia; the firft aftronomers, navigators, and traders, after the flood, and courted by the Arabs, the Canaanites, the Jews, and Egyptians, to fettle among# them* That, from their firft fettlement in Armenia, they foon palled down the Euphrates to the Perfian Gulph, round the Indian Ocean, to the Red Sea, up the coafl of the Mediterranean almolt to Tyre. The Greeks knew them by the names of the Phoenicians of the Bed Sea, by I&hyophagi and Troglodyte : in Scripture they are called Am Siim or Ship people, and Naphuth Don or Maritime folks. Thefe foon mixed with the Dadanites and Canaa¬ nites, allied with them, and were abforbed under the general name of Phoenicians ; yet Bill among them- felves were diflinguilhed as the Sons of Japhet Ga- dul. Thefe aflertions the author of this Vindication thinks can be well fupported by facred and profane hiftory, and with great deference fubmits them to the learned reader. The Greeks (and the Latins their Copyifls) have made flrange havock of the names Gothi and Scythi: from a fondnefs for the letter S, they frequently pre¬ fixed it to the proper names indiscriminately with other words, and thus confounded two nations as dif¬ ferent in their origin as any two people can be ; this has been juflly obferved by the learned Ihre. Lex. Suio Goth, in voce Goter. viz. u id taut uni monebo, (i Grecos qui vocibus fsepe S praepofuere, Gothorum u nomen