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148 PHGINICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

fables or forgeries, despite the above-cited facts to the contrary. But there is inscriptional evidence, as we shall see.

Nor is the alleged objection that there is no classic Greek or Roman reference to the name of King Brutus, even were it true, which it is not, sufficient grounds for rejecting the circumstantial British tradition regarding him. There is no classic reference to the Aryan ancestors of the historical Greeks nor to the names of the other descendants of AEneas, that, Homer states, revisited and re-occupied Troy in the dark period following its sack and destruction by the Achaians. Nor is there any classic Greek or Roman reference to any of the Jewish patriarchs, prophets and kings or even to the Hebrews themselves. But I find, as detailed in Appendix IV, that Homer does appear to mention King Brutus as “ Peirithoos’’ repeatedly, both in his Iliad and Odyssey, as one of the most famous of immortal heroes and associated with Hercules of the Phoenicians. Moreover, the Homeric hero who was the confederate of Peirithoos, namely, Coronos Caineus, appears to be Brutus’ colleague in the conquest of Albion, the Phcenician prince ‘‘ Corineus”’ of the British Chronicles.

‘Even for the traditional birth-place of Brutus-the-Trojan being located in the Tiber province of Latium, some evidence also is now forthcoming which connects Latium directly with both Troy and Ancient Britain. The Roman tradition of Aineas the Trojan—and the traditional great grandfather of Brutus—preserved by Virgil relates that Aineas, in his flight from Troy after the great war, carried with him, on his ship, his “‘ household guardian ‘ gods’ (penates) ’ from Troy to Latium in Italy.2) Now im Latium were unearthed two prehistoric shrines (see Fig. 24 for one of them) which might possibly be the actual ones brought by Aineas there. They are of the same hut-like form as the sacred buildings figured

‘Thus the translator of the common English version, Mr. J. A. Giles, warns his readers (p. 92) saying, ‘‘ It is unnecessary to remind the classical reader that the historians of Greece and Italy make no mention of Brutus and his adyentures.”’

* #neid i, 382. The flight of 4neas to the Tiber appears to have been considered an historical event by the Romans. Julius and others of the

Ceesars claimed descent from his son Judus, as well as did the legendary Romulus,