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The hypothesis of Strabo may have rested on nothing else than an inference from the similarity of name an inference such as the ancients drew, often without due reason, in the case of the Cimbri, Veneti, and others. III. I. Libyphoenicians III. VI. Gades Becomes Roman
The Tribes at the Sources of the Rhine and along the Danube Helvetii Boii Taurisci Cerni Raeti, Euganei, Veneti
On the other hand the Gauls doubtless employed in the Channel in Caesar's time, as for long afterwards, a species of portable leathern skiffs, which seem to have been in the main common oared boats, but on the west coast of Gaul the Santones, the Pictones, and above all the Veneti sailed in large though clumsily built ships, which were not impelled by oars but were provided with leathern sails and iron anchor-chains; and they employed these not only for their traffic with Britain, but also in naval combat.
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