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

THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 43
[Aiiraiios] Celtafque, quosCimbros vocznr^ad Dei-
phos poftiiffe cajlra : avjug x, KEATOlXjToig K/ugpo/5
KsyoiJ-svoi;, EHI AEA^OIS STSTPATETSAI ^
The Gauls, we fee, who are faid to have been
dcnomhiated Cimbri, were actually Proper Celtae,
and were abfolutely the very Gauls that encamped
againfl the temple of Delphi.—And
the palTage here cited from Diodorus, to prove
the Lufitanians a branch of the Cimbri, is
equally cited by Mr. Macpherfon only four
pages before, to prove them a branch of the
Galli, and has aftually no reference to either.
This is as aftonifhing, as it is evident. Speaking
of the migrations of the Galli, or Proper Celta?,
in p. 6— 10, and of the much later migrations
of the Cimbri, or German Celtce, in p. 10— 12^
Mr. Macpherfon in p. 8 alTerts Spain to have
been filled with a colony from Gaul, as he here
^fferts it to have received another from Germany,
and actually brings the fame paiTage of hiftory
as a proof of both. When he is to evince the
Cimbric or Celto-Germanic fettlement from it,
as here and in p. 30, he quotes it thus, aKyjiuvJczJot
^iv HcTi oi KO'.KsiJ.-zvoi Ava-ijavoij and, omnium Cimbro-
riim fortiffimi funt Lufitani. But when he is to
prove the Gallic, he cites it thus, ocXki^^o^ol
py TflN PAAATflN 01 KaX^i^mi Ava-^ocva. Mr.
Macpherfon's prejudices and inadvertency throw
any colour over the paffage, which the nature
? P. 1106. Amllel. 1670.
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