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154 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

“From thence, passing the river Walua |Wady Mulaye, west of Oran, forming the east frontier of Morocco] they arrived at Mauretania [Morocco], where, for want of provisions, they had to go ashore. . . . When they had well stored their ships, they steered to the Pillars of Hercules . . . and came to the Tyrrhenian Sea [Gulf of the Tyrian-Phcenician city of Gades or Cadiz]. Upon its shores they found four several clans descended from the banished Trojans who had accompanied [the Trojan Phcenician] Anfenor! in his flight. The name of their commander was Duke Corineus, a modest man in council, but of great courage and boldness, who could overthrow even gigantic opponents. When they learned from whom he was aescended they joined company with him and those under his government, who from the name of their leader were afterwards called the ‘ Cornish’ people.

Voyage from Gades to Albion

‘From thence they came to Aquitaine, and, entering the mouth of the Loire, cast anchor. Goffarius Pictus, who was king of Aquitaine at that time, hearing of the arrival of a foreign people with a great fleet upon his coasts, sent messengers to demand whether they brought peace or war. The messengers met Corineus, who was come ashore with two hundred men to hunt in the woods. They demanded who gave him permission to enter their king’s forests and kill his game. Corineus answered there was no occasion for asking leave, upon which one of them, named Imbertus, rushing forward with full-drawn bow, shot at him. Corineus, avoiding the arrow, ran up to him and with his bow in hand broke his head, and the rest escaped with the news to Goffarius. The Pictavian raised an army to revenge the death of his messenger.’ {Here follows an account of the battle between the Picts and the legion of Brutus and Corineus, in which the latter performs herculean prodigies of slaughter single-handed with his battle-axe, and the Picts are put to flight. Brutus pursued them through Aquitaine “ to the place where the city of Tours now stands, which he afterwards built,’2 and called it after ‘‘a Trojan named Turonus, the nephew of Brutus,” who was slain and buried there. Brutus “enriched his men with the spoils of the slain.” |

“ Brutus, afflicted to observe the number of his forces daily lessened, while that of the enemy increased . . . at last determined to return to his ships while the greater part of his followers was yet safe and hitherto victorious, and to go in

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:Nennius also credits Brutus with building “ Turnis, the city of the “ Turones ” or Tours in Gaul, (Nennius, sect. 10).