Note 1069 — Chapter XIII

It may be mentioned that while Penka makes the Siculi Illyrians from Upper Italy ("Zur Paläoethnologie Mittel- u. Südeuropas," in Wiener Anthrop. Ges. 1897, p. 18), E. A. Freeman holds that they were not only Aryans, but closely akin to the Romans, speaking "an undeveloped Latin," or "something which did not differ more widely from Latin than one dialect of Greek differed from another" (The History of Sicily, etc., I. p. 488). On the Siculi and Sicani, see E. Meyer, Geschichte des Altertums, 1909, I. 2, p. 723, also Art. "Sicily, History," Ency. Brit. 1911. Déchelette (Manuel d'Archéologie préhistorique, II. 1910, p. 17) suggests that Sikelos or Siculus, the eponymous hero of Sicily, may have been merely the personification of the typical Ligurian implement, the bronze sickle (Lat. secula, sicula).