i. 134 f.; cf. Greg. Tours, _Hist.
Franc._ i. 30.

[961] See Reinach, "Les monuments de pierre brute dans le langage et les
croyances populaires," _Rev. Arch._ 1893, i. 339; Evans, "The Roll-Right
Stones," _Folk-Lore_, vi. 20 f.

[962] Rh[^y]s, _HL_ 194; Diod. Sic. ii. 47.

[963] Rh[^y]s, 197.

[964] Joyce, _OCR_ 246; Kennedy, 271.

[965] Lucan, i. 443, iii. 399f.

[966] Cicero, _pro Fonteio_, x. 21; Tac. _Ann._ xiv. 30. Cf. Pomp. Mela,
iii. 2. 18.

[967] O'Curry, _MS. Mat._ 284; Cormac, 94. Cf. _IT_ iii. 211, for the
practice of circumambulating altars.

[968] Max. Tyr. _Dissert._ viii. 8; Lucan, iii. 412f.

[969] _Antient Laws of Ireland_, iv. 142.

[970] _Rev. Arch._ i. pl. iii-v.; Reinach, _RC_ xi. 224, xiii. 190.

[971] Stokes, _Martyr. of Oengus_, 186-187.

[972] See the Twenty-third Canon of Council of Arles, the Twenty-third
of the Council of Tours, 567, and ch. 65 of the _Capitularia_, 789.

[973] Mabillon, _Acta_, i. 177.

[974] Reinach, _Rev. Arch._ 1893, xxi. 335.

[975] Blanchet, i. 152-153, 386.

[976] Justin, xliii. 5; Strabo, xii. 5. 2; Plutarch, _de Virt. Mul._
xx.; Livy, v. 41.

[977] Cormac, 94.

[978] Keating, 356. See also Stokes, _Martyr. of Oengus_, 186; _RC_ xii.
427, Sec. 15; Joyce, _SH_ 274 f.

[979] _LL_ 213_b_; _Trip. Life_, i. 90, 93.

[980] O'Curry, _MS. Mat._ 284.

[981] Keating, 49.

[982] Jocelyn, _Vita S. Kentig._ 27, 32, 34; Ailred, _Vita S. Ninian._
6.

[983] Gildas, Sec. 4.

[984] For the whole argument see Reinach, _RC_ xiii. 189 f. Bertrand,
_Rev. Arch._ xv. 345, supports a similar theory, and, according to both
writers, Gallo-Roman art was the result of the weakening of Druidic
power by the Romans.

[985] L'Abbe Hermet, Assoc. pour l'avancement des Sciences, _Compte
Rendu_, 1900, ii. 747; _L'Anthropologie_, v. 147.

[986] _Corp. Scrip. Eccl. Lat._ i. 122.

[987] Monnier, 362. The image bears part of an inscription ... LIT...
and it has been thought that this read ILITHYIA originally. The name is
in keeping with the rites still in use before the image. This would make
it date from Roman times. If so, it is a poor specimen of the art of the
period. But it may be an old native image to which later the name of the
Roman goddess was given.

[988] Roden, _Progress of the Reformation in Ireland_, 51. The image was
still existing in 1851.

[989] For figures of most of these, see _Rev. Arch._ vols. xvi., xviii.,
xix., xxxvi.; _RC_ xvii. 45, xviii. 2