You have taken a passage that was actually intended as a side-glance, of little importance and no evidential value, and not even paid attention to the meaning of the "Anyway" that starts the second part. In English, "Anyway" at the start of a phrase or sentence implies that, whatever side issue or unprovable fancy we had been pursuing up to there, we are now going back to more solid ground; "Anyway, Nixon was President and ought to have known"; "Anyway, they scored and won the game, whether or not the ref was on their side." As for your fanciful claim that I did not subject my work to peer review, I will not even ask you to take it back - submission to sixty or so publishers ought to be enough, and publishing on the internet hardly means hiding it away - but I will tell you that your view of me would greatly have surprised the Belgian Society for Celtic Studies, who published my first book (http://www.sbec.be/index.php/publications/memoires.html), or Dublin's Institute for Advanced Studies (http://www.dias.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=596%3Ationol-2003&catid=23&Itemid=153&lang=en), not to mention any amount of more informal groupings in Oxford and elsewhere. And where is it written that to publish something on the Internet is to remove it from peer review? I can point you to at least one peer-reviewed magazine (Aarhus University's Classica et Medievalia) who didn't think so. I don't expect an apology from you when I've never had one however often you may have been wrong about me; but I remind you of the good old proverb that when you are in a hole, the best thing you could do is to stop digging.