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OF THE DRUIDS. 20-5were always i^overii'd by <strong>the</strong> family <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>* Boreadsf who with no more probability were <strong>the</strong> descendants<strong>of</strong> Boreas, an imaginary person or deity,than <strong>the</strong> Hyperboreans were so call'd, /rom heijigsUitated more nor<strong>the</strong>rly than <strong>the</strong> north'Whid'l:bnt in reality <strong>the</strong>y were <strong>the</strong>n, as <strong>the</strong>y are still, governedby <strong>the</strong>ir chiefs or heads <strong>of</strong> tribes, whom<strong>the</strong>y caird in <strong>the</strong>ir own language Boireadhach ;that is to say, <strong>the</strong> great ones, or pow^erful and valiantmen, from Borr^ antiently signifying grandeurand majesty §. The Greecs have in a thousandinstances apply'd foren words to <strong>the</strong> verydifferent sense <strong>of</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r words approaching to <strong>the</strong>same sound in <strong>the</strong>ir own language. Their firstsailors into those parts gave <strong>the</strong> ilanders <strong>the</strong> name<strong>of</strong> Hy2)erhoreans, from <strong>the</strong>ir<strong>the</strong> north with respect to <strong>the</strong>lying so far towardsstraights <strong>of</strong> Hercu-* Ba3-fX£L'£tyr£ T>!? WiX&wj TfluTw;, nai Tit rE|0t£V0y? fTrapp^fiv tbi; ovoy.a^O{xevou;BopcaS'a;, mtoyonov; onrtiQ Bo^eov, y.m xaraycnoQ aiei ha^exa^Qui Ta? a?x«f. '^^'^•§. pag. 130.+ Boreades.I Atto ru 7TfoiTs-MTes(u x^ifflmlnf Bope.ov Trnons.Lib. ?, pag. ISOt§ As for <strong>the</strong>se words Borr and Buireadhach or Boinadhach(<strong>the</strong> vowels u and o being with us most frequently put for eacho<strong>the</strong>r) I might appeal to several au<strong>the</strong>ntic manuscripts, but, becausesuch are not obvious to many, I chuse ra<strong>the</strong>r to refer myreaders to <strong>the</strong> Sednasan nuadh, or printed vocabulary <strong>of</strong> obsoletewords by O'Clery, and to Lhudy's printed IrisfuEnglish Die.iionary: so that <strong>the</strong>se words are no children <strong>of</strong> fancy, as but to<strong>of</strong>requently happens in etymologies. From <strong>the</strong> same root areBorrogach couragious, and Borrthoradh awe or worship, with<strong>the</strong> lik9.Dd

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