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NOTES. 277giiage^ Is poiul blank against his hypothesis. But what rendersthe matter still worse, he tells us that Tuisco of Germanyand the Teutales of Gaul have exactly the same meaning. Thesetwo Gods have been generally reckoned the same. Cicero deNatura Deorum^ lib. 3, page 301, reckons him the 5th Mercury^and says, IJunc JEgyptii Thcutatem appellant^ eodejnque nomine^anni primus mcnsis apud eos vocatur^ i. e. The Egyptians callhim Teutales^ and the first month of their year is called by th«same name. In the margin he gives us the synonimous nameThein^ which every one knows isthe Gaelic Tein^ and signifiesFire. Such a coincidence in the ^Egyptian and Gaelic languageswas hardly to have been expected.But Cicero, in the margin, gives us a third name of this god,Tiz. Thoyth, As tj occurs only in such Latin words as are ofGreek origin, Thoyth is evidently the Greek Thouth, adopted bythe Romans. In the Greek it is now obsolete. Thoyth orThouth is evidently the Gaelic Theuth or Tenth, signifying Uraor heat, and is synonimous with Tein before-mentioned.Theutates, or Teuiates, is the most common and modern name,and is evidently the Gaelic Teoihaighte or Teuihaighte (pronouncedTeutait), and signifying Zuarmed.In the Gaelic languagewe have many affinitives of this word, viz. Teth, Teith^and Tenth, i. e. heat or hot, Tiothan, Tiotan, Tithin, Tethin^and Titan, i. e. the Sun, Teutham, Teotham, Tetham, andTitam, I. e. to warm, &c. «&:c. That the name, as well as theetymon of this Egyptian deity, can be clearly traced in theGaelic language, is a strong evidence that these languages wer*Originally the same.By Tcntates the Romans understood Mercury ; but the modernsprobably considered him as Mars; for that day of theweek which the Romans named Dies Martis, we name Tuesdaywhich is only an abbreviation of Teutate^* day, or Teuth^s day.Titan, by which the Greeks and Romans meant the sun, is,not a Celtic, at any rate an Egyptian deity ;ifand, in the coursepf the notes, I will have occasion to shew that most wf the€rreek g.od? are borrowed. The utmost that caa be granted t»