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XI. Ceterum Britanniam qui mortales initio coluerint, indigenae an advecti, ut inter barbaros, parum compertum. Habitus corporum varii: atque ex eo argumenta; namque rutilae Caledoniam habitantium comae, magni artus, Germanicam originem asseverant. Silurum colorati vultus et torti plerumque crines et posita contra Hispania Iberos veteres trajecisse easque sedes occupasse fidem faciunt.
The dark people resembled the Aquitani and the Iberians; the fair people were like the Belgic Gauls. The chief direct evidence of the truth of this proposition is the well-known passage of Tacitus: "Ceterum Britanniam qui mortales initio coluerint, indigenae an advecti, ut inter barbaros, parum compertum.
But ac, besides being more frequent before a consonant, is found in the best MSS. XI. Indigenae an advecti. Cf. note, G. 2: indigenas. Ut inter barbaros, sc. fieri solet. Cf. ut in licentia, G. 2; and ut inter Germanos, G. 30. Rutilae asseverant. Cf. the description of the Germans, G. 4. The inhabitants of Caledonia are of the same stock as the other Britons.
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