The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ...

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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
vernment of Gaul, Provir.cl^ Gallic M. Fron-
telus prsefuit, and, like a mere advocate, catch-
ing at the popular, prejudices of the Romans,
fays thus of the Gallic tribes. Hx funt nationes
qu^e tam longe ab fuis fedibus Delphos ufque,
ad Apollinem Pythium atque ad oraculum orbis
terrse vexandum ac fpoliandum, profefta? funt.
Ab iifdem gcntibus— obfejfum ejl CapitoUuin. Here
we fee no mention of the Cimbri, and no inti-
mation concerning the German Celtce. All that
is faid IS fpoken merely of the real and abfo-
lute Gauls, of thofe who facked Pvome as well
as plundered Delphi. And Mr. Macpherfon's
quotation, not only does not prove the fpirit of
conqueft to have retired from Gaul towards the
North, and the Geraian Celtae to have ravaged
all the regions between the Rhine and the Ionian
Sea ; but actually evinces the contrary, fhews
the fpirit at this period to have been ftill very
aftive in Gaul, and appropriates thefe ravages
to the Native Celtfe.
P. 28—29. " "^^^ ft^"'**^ ^f conqueft pafling
^^ from the Gauls to the Celto-Germanic colonies
*^ beyond the Rhine, the latter pervaded Europe
** with their armies (Cimbri magnam Europe nee
*" exiguam AfiiE partem fibi tributariam fecere
*'*'
agrofque debellatorum a fe occuparunt. Diod.
*^ Sic. lib. v.).—The German poilerity of the
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" Gauls,