Note 267 — Chapter VI
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Thucyd. l. viii.; Dion. Halic., l. i. Timæus, as quoted by Diodorus Siculus, l. vi. ch. 2.; Strabo, l. vi. Ausonius, Lucan, and Silvius Italicus, all concur in deducing the population, or a population of Sicily, from Spain.
Seneca (de Consolatione) calls these colonists not Iberi but Hispani, and says their descendants were like the Cantabrians, who had a distinct costume and language—distinct of course from the Iberi—and inhabited in his time the north-eastern part of the Peninsula.
“Transierunt et Hispani, quod ex similitudine ritus apparet; eadem enim tegumenta capitum, idemque genus calciamenti, quod Cantabris est, et verba quæedam.”