Milesians, another name for the Scots, the last of the prehistoric invaders of Ireland (q.v., Vol. VI. p. 203); from an assumed eponymous ancestor Milesius, whose name is a modification of Miles, a Latin translation of the Celtic Gulam.
Milesians
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 189
Source scan(s): p. 0198