The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps
202 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS
“ Coss-ini’’ is the title given by a Greek writer! to the people of the tin-producing country of South-Western Britain. |?
It thus appears probable that the first batch of Phcenicians who worked these Cassiterides mines belonged to the “ Cassi ” clan to which our Brito-Phcenician Part-olon belonged, But it seems not improbable that Brutus and his Phcenician kinsmen also bore this clan title, which their later descendants, the Briton kings of the late pre-Roman period, stamped upon their “ Cassi’ coins and gave them their “Cassi’’ title, as recorded by Cesar. The sea-going Cassi clan had chains of colonies stretching along the Mediterranean, (see map) ; and Strabo states that the Phcenicians under Cadmus occupied the Cadmus district of Epirus? with the New Troy on the Thyamis river (whence Brutus came) ; and the coastal tribe adjoining the Acheron river (whence Brutus sailed, was called “‘ Cass-opzi '’ with a port called ‘“‘ C assi-ope (or Cassi-opo) ; and similarly opposite the mouth of the river of Phcenice in North Epirus was another port named “ Cassi-ope”’ also of the same tribe. And this name “ Cassi-ope ’’ appears to mean “‘ Fort of the Cassi tribe.’
Just as we have seen that Brutus and his Phcenician Barat colonists and their descendants bestowed their own ancestral eponymic royal title of Barat or “ Brit-on”’ on many of their early settlements throughout their new home-land in Britain, so also they bestowed, I find, their more general tribal title of Khatti or “ Catti’ (or “‘ Hitt ’’-ite or “ Goth ’’), as well as their special Phcenician modification
» Artemidorus, cited by Stephanos de urbibus: C.B., 1, 1. *These people were called Ostimii by Pytheas (the Ostizi of Strabo, 2, 4, 3 and 195: 4, 4, 1.) and said to ‘“‘ dwell on a promontory which
projects considerably into the ocean,” and it adjoined ‘‘ Uxisama”’ (i.e., Ushant (Strabo, 1, 4, 5), which thus indicates Cornwall. 2S., 32035 7, 7 I. *Ib., 323: 7, 7s 5-
° This affix “‘ ope ’’ is also found in Epirus in ‘‘ Can-ope ’’ on the Acheron tiver, and in Sin-ope, the chief port of Cappadocia on the Euxine; and in “ Parthen-ope’”’ the old name for Naples (S. 654: 14, 2, 10). This latter word “ Parthen,”’ i.e., ‘‘ Barat-ana’’ or ‘‘ Brit-ain”’ is clearly in ethnic series with ‘‘ Cassi ’’ and means ‘‘ Place of the Parthen or Barats.’’ This ‘“ Ope ” is obviously derived from the Akkadian Uppu, ‘‘ a ring or fence,”’ cognate with 4dpapw ‘surround, enclosure,’ and apa-rum, a ‘“ rampart."” (M.D., 78, 79, 80), and is presumably the source of the Latin Oppidum, “a town,” and English “ hoop.’'