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

392 PH@NICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

of the Sun-cult of the Hitto-Phcenician archangel Taxi or Tascio, with its Sun-Crosses and Corn emblems, which cult we have already found in the Don Yalley of the Texali tribe, and in the neighbourhood of the Phoenician Barat Part-olon’s votive Cross to Bel at Newton and elsewhere.

Androgeus, again, the eldest son of King Lud-(No. 68 on list) and nephew of Cassibellan, and who, the Chronicle tells us, was duke of Kent, is disclosed by the Chronicle to be obviously the Andoc, Ando, And,* Anid, Anted,? Antedrigv,* and Avnt,® stamped upon various Briton coins, and thus further establishing the historicity of the British Chronicles.

Guiderius (No. 72 on list), the eldest son of Cunobelin, is, I find, clearly the minter of the coins bearing the legend CAV-DVRO, i.z., “ Cau-duro.”’6

And lastly, the last independent Briton king “‘ Avvi-ragus ’’ of Geoffrey's Chronicle (No. 73 on list), and the ‘“ Cate-racus’’ or ‘‘ Cara-dog”’ of the Welsh records, “‘ Caratacus’’ (erroneously called “* Caractacus ’ by the Romans), the famous younger son of Cunobelin, whose virtues and bravery are so highly extolled by Tacitus, is now disclosed by the Chronicles to be the author of the Briton coins stamped “‘ RVIL” and “ RVI'S.”7 This name was suggested by Evans to represent a hypothetical king “ Rufus or Rufinus,’’® Bunt this RVI of the coins now clearly identifies their minter with ‘‘ 4yvi-ragus ’’ or Caratacus of the Chronicles. The form vii appears to be the latinized genitive and Rvi’s the corresponding Briton Gothic genitive of 7s, the source of our English ’s, and thus giving us a bilingual form of that legend in Latin and British Gothic. Indeed, the identity of the title“ Arvi-ragus”’ with Caratacus was well known to and used by contemporary Roman writers. Thus Juvenal {born about 55 A.D.), in reflecting the love and respect or fear of the Romans and his suzerainty over the kinglets of Britain, in regard to their once-captured Briton king, Caratacus, relates how a certain blind man, speaking of a turbot that was taken, said :—

“ Arviragus shall from his Britan chariot fall, Or thee his lord some captive Ring shall call.’**

This title ‘‘ Arvi-ragus ” appears to be probably a latinized form of the earlier racial title of the “‘ Arri’’ or Aryans, as the “* Plough-men ”—4rvi being the Latin for “‘ ploughed ”’ from the Latin and Greek Avo or Avo, ““to plough.” And vagus is presumably a latinized dialectic spelling of the British Gothic ?ig or Reis, ‘a king’ and cognate, as we have seen, with Latin Rex-Regis and “‘ Raja.’"9 This would give the title of “* King of the Plough-men (or Arri),’’ and the prominence of agriculture in Britain is attested by such frequent representations of ears of Corn on the Briton coins.

This alternative title of ‘‘ Arvi-ragus’”’ ior Caratacus clearly shows that the Briton kings, like the other Early Aryan and Pheenician kings, and like the well-known instances of Early Egyptian kings, were in the habit of using more than one title.

Now this dropping out of the initial letter of Caratacus’ name of “ Arvi”’ in his coins suggests that certain other Briton coins, previously ascribed to him by Camden and others, but latterly erected by Evans into coins of an otherwise unknown Briton king of the name “ Epaticcus,’’ do really belong to Caratacus after all. The coins inscribed C V EPATIC (see Fig. 61, p. 339) were read by Camden as “ Cearatic ’ and identified by

1 Geoffrey, 3, 20. 2 Evans, op. cit., Pl. 5, Nos. 5 and 6. ; 3 Jbid,, Pl. 1, No.8; and Pl. 15, Nos. 9-11. 4 Toid., Pl. 1, No. 7. 5 Tbid., Pl. 17, No. 8. 6 Tbhid., Pl. 15, 14. ? Ibid., Pl. 7, Nos. 12 and 14; and PI. 8, No. r.

8 Tbid., 262 and 263. The legend is thereread “RVFI?” and ““RYVFS,” but no sign of an F is seen in any of the figures of these coins in the plates. 9 Juvenal Satires, 4, 26: Regem aliquem capies, aut de temone Britanno decidet Arviragus. 10 There is, perhaps, a pun on this Raja or Reiks in Juvenal’s above cited satire, as Kajain Latin is the flat turbot-like Ray fish,