target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_5b73b8e6-9b02-5998-bd04-b381978d141d">977. D'Arbois, Les Druides, 77.
978. Diod. Sic. v. 31. 4.
979. See Cicero, de Div. i. 41.
980. Diod. Sic. v. 28; Amm. Marc. xv. 9; Hippolytus, Refut. Hær. i. 22.
981. Amm. Marc. xv. 9.
982. Cæsar, vi. 14.
983. Diog. Laert. 6. Celtic enthusiasts see in this triple maxim something akin to the Welsh triads, which they claim to be Druidic!
984. Bertrand, 280.
985. Cæsar, vi. 13.
986. Trip. Life, ii. 325, i. 52, ii. 402; IT i. 373; RC xxvi. 33. The title rig-file, "king poet," sometimes occurs.
987. Cæsar, vi. 14.
988. Cæsar, vi. 13; Strabo, iv. 4. 4.
989. Strabo, xii. 5. 2.
990. Their judicial powers were taken from them because their speech had become obscure. Perhaps they gave their judgments in archaic language.
991. Diod. Sic. v. 31. 5.
992. Cæsar, vii. 33.
993. IT i. 213; D'Arbois, v. 186.
994. Dio, Orat. xlix.
995. LL 93.
996. Ancient Laws of Ireland, i. 22.
997. Cæsar, vi. 13, 14; Windisch, Táin, line 1070 f.; IT i. 325; Arch. Rev. i. 74; Trip. Life, 99; cf. O'Curry, MC ii. 201.
998. Cæsar, vi. 14; Strabo, iv. 4. 4.
999. Trip. Life, 284.
1000. Lucan, i. 451.
1001. Diod. v. 31. 4; cf. Cæsar, vi. 13, 16; Strabo, iv. 4. 5.
1002. See p. 248, supra.
1003. RC xiv. 29; Miss Hull, 4, 23, 141; IT iii. 392, 423; Stokes, Félire, Intro. 23.
1004. Loth, i. 56.
1005. See my art. "Baptism (Ethnic)" in Hastings' Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, ii. 367 f.
1006. Carmichael, Carm. Gadel. i. 115.
1007. See p. 206, supra.
1008. IT i. 215.
1009. O'Curry, MS. Mat. 221, 641.
1010. RC xvi. 34.
1011. Pliny, HN xvi. 45; Trip. Life, ii. 325; Strabo, iv. 275.
1012. RC xxii. 285; O'Curry, MC ii. 215.
1013. Reeves' ed. of Adamnan's Life of S. Col. 237; Todd, S. Patrick, 455; Joyce, SH i. 234. For the relation of the Druidic tonsure to the peculiar tonsure of the Celtic Church, see Rh^ys, HL 213, CB4 72; Gougaud, Les Chrétientés Celtiques, 198.
1014. See Hyde, Lit. Hist. of Ireland, 88; Joyce, SH i. 239.
1015. Cæsar, vi. 14, ii. 10.
1016. Suetonius, Claud. 25.
1017. Pliny HN xxx. 1; Suet. Claud. 25.
1018. de Cæsaribus, 4, "famosæ superstitiones"; cf. p. 328, infra.
1019. Mela, iii. 2.
1020. Mommsen, Rom. Gesch. v. 94.
1021. Bloch (Lavisse), Hist. de France, i. 2, 176 f., 391 f.; Duruy, "Comment périt l'institution Druidique," Rev. Arch. xv. 347; de Coulanges, "Comment le Druidisme a disparu," RC iv. 44.
1022. Les Druides, 73.
1023. Phars. i. 453, "Ye Druids, after arms were laid aside, sought once again your barbarous ceremonials.... In remote forests do ye inhabit the deep glades."
1024. Mela, iii. 2.
