Note 16 — Chapter I · SAXON AND WELSH TRADITIONS.

Ptolemy, bk. ii. c. 2. It is true that Ptolemy calls them Καύκοι, but this mode of spelling is not unexampled, and is found in even so correct a writer as Strabo. The proper form is Καύχοι. Latin authors occasionally write Cauci for Chauci, and sometimes even Cauchi: see Zeuss, Die Deutschen und die Nachbarstämme, p. 138. It is right to add that Zeuss, whose opinion on such a point is entitled to the highest consideration, hesitates to include these Καυκοι among Germanic tribes (p. 199). The Μανάπιοι, placed also by Ptolemy in Ireland, can hardly be Germans.