[1027] Suet. Claud. 25; Mela, iii. 2.

[1028] Pliny, xxx. 1.

[1029] D’Arbois, Les Druides, 77.

[1030] Diod.  Sic. v. 31. 4.

[1031] See Cicero, de Div. i. 41.

[1032] Diod.  Sic. v. 28; Amm.  Marc. xv. 9; Hippolytus, Refut.  Haer. i. 22.

[1033] Amm.  Marc. xv. 9.

[1034] Caesar, vi. 14.

[1035] Diog.  Laert. 6.  Celtic enthusiasts see in this triple maxim something akin to the Welsh triads, which they claim to be Druidic!

[1036] Bertrand, 280.

[1037] Caesar, vi. 13.

[1038] Trip.  Life, ii. 325, i. 52, ii. 402; IT i. 373; RC xxvi. 33.  The title rig-file, “king poet,” sometimes occurs.

[1039] Caesar, vi. 14.

[1040] Caesar, vi. 13; Strabo, iv. 4. 4.

[1041] Strabo, xii. 5. 2.

[1042] Their judicial powers were taken from them because their speech had become obscure.  Perhaps they gave their judgments in archaic language.

[1043] Diod.  Sic. v. 31. 5.

[1044] Caesar, vii. 33.

[1045] IT i. 213; D’Arbois, v. 186.

[1046] Dio, Orat. xlix.

[1047] LL 93.

[1048] Ancient Laws of Ireland, i. 22.

[1049] Caesar, vi. 13, 14; Windisch, Tain, line 1070 f.; IT i. 325; Arch.  Rev. i. 74; Trip.  Life, 99; cf.  O’Curry, MC ii. 201.

[1050] Caesar, vi. 14; Strabo, iv. 4. 4.

[1051] Trip.  Life, 284.

[1052] Lucan, i. 451.

[1053] Diod. v. 31. 4; cf.  Caesar, vi. 13, 16; Strabo, iv. 4. 5.

[1054] See p. 248, supra.

[1055] RC xiv. 29; Miss Hull, 4, 23, 141; IT iii. 392, 423; Stokes, Felire, Intro. 23.

[1056] Loth, i. 56.

[1057] See my art.  “Baptism (Ethnic)” in Hastings’ Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, ii. 367 f.

[1058] Carmichael, Carm.  Gadel. i. 115.

[1059] See p. 206, supra.

[1060] IT i. 215.

[1061] O’Curry, MS. Mat. 221, 641.

[1062] RC xvi. 34.

[1063] Pliny, HN xvi. 45; Trip.  Life, ii. 325; Strabo, iv. 275.

[1064] RC xxii. 285; O’Curry, MC ii. 215.

[1065] 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[^y]s, HL 213, CB{4} 72; Gougaud, Les Chretientes Celtiques, 198.

[1066] See Hyde, Lit.  Hist. of Ireland, 88; Joyce, SH i. 239.

[1067] Caesar, vi. 14, ii. 10.

[1068] Suetonius, Claud. 25.

[1069] Pliny HN xxx. 1; Suet. Claud. 25.

[1070] de Caesaribus, 4, “famosae superstitiones”; cf. p. 328, infra.