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This family were not called Celtti nor Cunmerii. If
Celtüe were known, in ])art of their territories, by the names
of Ύηχνΐς, ΤΥΓ/ί'ηίς, or n(i(iv€S of the land, they were still re-
garded as intruders, and described as 7nen of might, who
retained possession rather by force, than by a lawful claim to
it, and who were, upon that account, just/ly expelled.
We must look then for the Celta; amongst the descendants
of Gomer. The word nnj implying tojinish, to come, or bring
to an end or conchmon, may intimate the situation intended
for the posterity of this patriarch, at the end of the Earth. A
people named from Gomer would be DnDJ or HDJ Gomcrim
or Gomeri, and it could be shewn, in a multitude of instances,
that C or Κ in the Celtic, and other European languages,
occupies the place of the Hebrew j. Cyrnri or Kimnierii may
then be nothing more than Gomerii.
Were not the name of Celtae acknowledged by the people
of Gaul, it might, with reasonable conjeélure, be derived
from n^D, synonymous with ΊΏ:ι; ri^D, Λ finishing, Λ η End ;
»ΓΟ'2, Celta, men of the extrcmiti/—\i ατχα,τοί. diet (Kilet)
in the language of the Celtaj themselves, implies Extreme
Corners or Retreats, and 1 think also, 'Sorthern regions.
Be this, however, as it may, Josephus, Λνΐιο may be deemed
an able critic in Hebrew geography, declares that those whom
the Greeks called Galatae or Celtae were descended from
Gomer.
We read of three sons w ho divided the patrimony of Gomer,
or of three nations which descended from him, namely
Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah. These of coui^se were
equally entitled to the name of Gomeritae. But as the
\\'cstern; or our Celtae, appeal• to have been çne separated