Joh. Danielis Schoepflini Commentatio historica qua Alemannicae antiquitates, sive integra veterum Alemannorum usque ad extinctam eorundem rempublicam fata, ed., recogn. auxit J.H.M. Ernesti

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ... MEMOIRS OF THE CELTS. CHAP. I. Of the Origin and Name of the Celts. The Gauls (GalU, as those who, in their own language, assumed the name of Celts (KiVroi, CelUe) and had it formerly, from others, vere called by the Romans)1 affirmed themselves all 1 Caesar, Gallic war (B. i. C. ).--Herodotus, 470 years before the Christian era, calls them Celts (kitoi,) as do, likewise Aristotle, Polybius, Strabo, and later Creek writers, and even some of the Roman, as Silius Italicus, Martial, and Apuleius (De mundo), that is, Celtte, as the Greek name seems to have been improperly rendered into their language, instead of Celfi (the Latin C being, uniformly, pronounced hard like the Greek or English K). They were likewise known to the Greeks by the name of Galats or Galatians (TcchxTXi), which is first given them by the poet Callimachus about 350 years before Christ, and nearly 100 before their settlement in Asia (TaharuTt, Hymn to Delos, v. 184). Pausanias, in the second century, says that the name of Galatians (rATi) had, only, obtained of late; and that, in former times, they were called Celts (KitaVi), both by themselves, B descended from father Dis, and said this to be declared by the Druids. and others. Appian, a writer of the same age, is the first, if not the only, Greek, who makes use of the Roman appellation TaMw. Etymology has been long puzzled to account for the name of either Celta or Gallus. According to Lactantius, the Gauls (Goiii) of old were called Galatians (Galatix), from the whiteness of their body (See Jeroms preface to his commentary on the second epistle to the Galatians) from Va.'Kx, milk; as in Virgils JEneid:----" Tuin lactea colla Auro innectuntur--:" Whether the word TaMos or Gallus, originally signified...