Virgil, Eclogues, I, 67
• Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 2063
• Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 2063
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The Britons, a race entirely cut off from the rest of the world.
— Celtic Britons
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• Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 2063" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Celtic Britons
The Britons (Reconstructed Brittonic: Pritanī, Latin: Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). They spoke Common Brittonic, the ancestor of the modern Brittonic languages.
About Celtic Britons
The Britons (Reconstructed Brittonic: Pritanī, Latin: Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). They spoke Common Brittonic, the ancestor of the modern Brittonic languages.
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