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KING LIST OF ANCIENT BRITONS 389

Date of

Events Contemporary No. and Historical Events Remarks, B.C. 2 Guiderius, eldest s, of 71. 73 Arvi - ragus or The ‘“Carata- | Claudius conquers

Agrestes or Catefacus, Cara-docus or Caratacus, 2nd s. of 71.

of peace, OE ACE

The following identifications of kings in these Chronicle lists, not already specially noted in the foregoing text, call for remark.

Brennus (or Bryan), brother of King Belinus (No. 22 on list) is reported in the Chronicles to be the famous Brennus who led the Gauls in the sack of Rome, placed in 390 B.c. But this Briton tradition, along with the rest of the Chronicles, has been summarily thrust aside by modern writers, the one following the other without serious consideration, as being preposterous and an anachronism as well. Seeing, however, that Rome and Roman civilization and traditional history are of so much later origin than London and British civilization and traditional history, and that the Roman date of 390 B.c. for that event appears to rest merely upon a tradition, and that the British tradition appears to be circumstantial and authentic, and otherwise in agreement with the Roman account of that event, the evidence for the Roman date of 39° B.C., as opposed to the British date of ‘ before 407 B.c.’’ requires re-examination. The Roman tradition states that the Gauls were led by Brennus in that raid in retaliation for Roman opposition to the Senones, or Seine tribe of the Gauls, in their siege of Clusium in Etruscany of the Tyrrheni, in which country they wished to establish a colonial settlement. Now the British Chronicles relate with circumstantial detail that between 420 and 408 B.c. the Briton prince Brennus, who had married the heiress-daughter of the Gallic Duke ofthe Allobroges, had, upon the death of the latter and with the assistance of his brother King Belinus, conquered Gaul and “‘ brought the whole kingdom of Gaul into subjection.’"1 The Senones tribe of Gauls occupied the left bank of the middle Seine, below whom, as we have seen, were the coastal provinces of the Casse or Cassi; whilst significantly on the adjoining eastem bank were the Catalauni tribe of the Marne Valley. And the Chronicle account also states that Brennus led the Senones to Rome “ in revenge on the Romans for their breach of treaty.’’? This raid appears to bave been analogous to that later one by their kinsmen Goths under Alaric in the fifth century a.D., and, like it, was also for the breach by the Romans of their treaty.

Cassibellan (No. 69 on list), the “‘ Cassivellaunus’”’ of the Romans, although nowhere credited in the British Chronicles nor in Roman history with any son, is nevertheless given a son “‘ Tascio-vanus ”' by modern numismatists,3 on the mere assumption that three coins of Cunobelin (No. 71 on list) which bear the legend ‘‘ Tascio-vani P.”’ and “‘ Tasc F’’! designate him thereby as “ Son of Tascio-vanus,’”’ in which the F is regarded as being a contraction for the Latin filius, ‘‘ason.’’ The third coin, which is slightly defaced, bears the legend ‘‘ Tasc. FI,’”’ with a final letter of which only

+ Geoffrey, op. cit., 3, 8. 2 [bid., 3, 9. ? Birch, Numismat. Chronicle, 7, 78; and j. Evans, Anc, Brit. Coins, 220, etc, ‘Evans, op. cit., Pl, 10,7; Pl. 12, 1.