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

THE BPvITONS ASSERTED. 41
piilfi regno, ad alios quam ad Gallos confugerunr.
Tantus terror Gallici nominis et armorum invifta
felicitas '. And here, in the fame drain of in-
advertency that is noticed before, Mr. Macpher-
fon appears to have left out the word Gallorum
in one of his quotations and Gallici in another,
and to have applied all three in dire£t oppofition
to the exprefs and repeated meaning of the
whole. The armies which Juflin here defcribes
as pouring into Thrace, Greece, and Macedonia,
he does not aflert to have been Germans, and he
does not afErm to have been denominated Cim-
brl. He explicitly declares them to have been
Gauls. He directly derives them from their na-
tive country of Gaul. And he repeatedly makes
them to have been a part of that national body,
which took the city of Rome, and marched to
plunder the temple of Delphi.
Each of thefe long extracts reflects a light upon
the other. And from the united luilre of all
we may clearly fee, that Mr. Macpherfon has
been ftrangely led away by his own prejudices,
has preifed into his caufe arguments that are all
in a natural combination againfl him, and, in a
fpirit of involuntary piracy, is even fighting
vmder falfe colours. The total omiffion of fome
expreflions that mufl: have difproved the appli-
cation of 'the paffages, the careful difcharge of
* L. XXV. C. 2,
all