Note (2) — 62.—Of Armenia.

(2.) “they call the Germans, Nymitsch.”—This term is borrowed from the Slaves, who have applied it to the Germans from the earliest times, either because the latter spoke an incomprehensible, a dumb language, or, as Schafarik explains (Slawische Alterthümer, i, 442), because they followed the example of the Celts, who called certain German tribes settled in Gaul, Nemetes.1—Bruun.