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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF<br />

declares <strong>the</strong> Gauls, and <strong>the</strong> Gauls only, to have<br />

made this expedition. And he declares <strong>the</strong>m to<br />

haye palled under <strong>the</strong>ir own indigenous denomir<br />

nations <strong>of</strong> Galli and Celtas.<br />

Juflin is <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r author here quoted. And<br />

he is ftill more exprefsly againft <strong>the</strong> purp<strong>of</strong>e for<br />

which <strong>Mr</strong>, Macpheribn has produced him. Ke<br />

fays thus. Galli, abundant! multitudine, cum eos<br />

pon caperent terra qu(Z genuerant, ad fedes novas<br />

quserendas velut ver facrum miferunt. E.i hU<br />

portio in Italia confedit, qutz et Urbem Romanam<br />

(apt(im inccndit, et portio Illyricos fmus— per<br />

flrages barbarorum penetravit, & in Pannonia<br />

confedit •, gens<br />

afpera, audax, bellic<strong>of</strong>a— . Hor^<br />

tante deinde fuccelTu, divifis agminibus, alii Grce-<br />

ciam, alii Macedoniam. omnia ferro protcrcntes,<br />

petivere. Tantufque terror Gallici nominis erat, ut<br />

— folus rex Macedonije Ptolemncus advcntnm<br />

G^Z/onwi intrepidus audivit. Iptm Galli, duce<br />

Belgio, attacked and defeated Ptolemy. — Interea<br />

Brennus, quo duce portio Gallorum in Grceciam<br />

fe effuderat, audita vi^loria fi^orum qui Belgio<br />

duce Macedonas vicerant,—Delphos iter vertit '<br />

And in ano<strong>the</strong>r place Juftin fays thus. GaUorum<br />

tz tempellate tantje foecunditatis juvcntus fuit,<br />

ut Afiam omnem velut examine aliquo implerenr.<br />

Peniquc, neqi;e reg£s Oriends fine merccnario<br />

Qallorum exercitu ulla bella geiferunt, neque,<br />

» L, xxiv. c. 4, j", 6.<br />

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