Note 395 — Chapter I
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Ammianus Marcellinus (xv. 9) quotes from Timagenes (who wrote in the first century a history of Gaul, now lost) a statement that some of the Gauls had originally immigrated from very distant islands and from lands beyond the Rhine (ab insulis extimis confluxisse et tractibus transrhenanis) whence they were driven by wars and the incursions of the sea (Timag. in Mueller, Frag. hist. of Graec., iii. 323). It would seem incredible that this should be dragged into the Atlantis controversy, but such has been the case.