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35<br />

THE GENUINE HISTORY OF<br />

fubflituted for <strong>the</strong> Gauls. <strong>The</strong>y were <strong>the</strong> na-<br />

tives <strong>of</strong> Gaul, and not <strong>the</strong> refidents <strong>of</strong> Germany,<br />

who more than 3C0 years prior to <strong>the</strong> Chriftian<br />

cera, as <strong>the</strong> preceding palfage fixes <strong>the</strong> time, or<br />

about half a century after <strong>the</strong> death <strong>of</strong> Alexan-<br />

der, as <strong>the</strong> prefent more accurately, though con-<br />

tradidorily, fixes it, ravaged all <strong>the</strong> country to <strong>the</strong><br />

fea <strong>of</strong> Ionia. In <strong>the</strong> year 279 before Chrift, <strong>the</strong><br />

jGauls fent out three armies, which ravaged Pan-<br />

nonia, Greece, Macedonia, and Afia, plundered<br />

or attempted to plunder <strong>the</strong> temple at Delphi,<br />

and fettled colonies in fome <strong>of</strong> th<strong>of</strong>e countries.<br />

And even <strong>the</strong> authorities, here cited to confine<br />

<strong>the</strong>fe anions to <strong>the</strong> Germans, all concur to appro-<br />

pri-ite <strong>the</strong>m to <strong>the</strong> Gauls. This mufl feem very<br />

ftrange. But it is actually true.<br />

Diodorus, fpeaking exprefsly <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gauls,<br />

"but confidering <strong>the</strong>m as extended s^T,g /xj^f^ Trjs<br />

^Kv^Kz^y fays thus. Hi—funt qui Romam ceperunt.<br />

Hi tem.plum in Delphis expilarunt. Hi<br />

magnam Europas paitem, &c. Ou/o' «o"/i' ol ty/v ijlsv<br />

nycKk"^v jjipj r/jg 'EvpcjOTT'^jg, 8Z oTvy^.p 5f kul r'% Ai<br />

(popcXoy/ia-ccvj^g' 01 }im n:r[V ar(i,^-> v^g EXX'/ivag STVi'n-Xox.^fj ,<br />

EAAHNO-rAAATAI KXyf^yJ'lsg . Th<strong>of</strong>e, <strong>the</strong>refore,<br />

who reduced a confiderable part <strong>of</strong> Europe and no<br />

inconfiderable portion <strong>of</strong> Afia, and fettled on <strong>the</strong><br />

^ V. i. p. 3_J4. WeflHingUis.<br />

yoxc<br />

^- lands

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