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

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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
made acrofs the Rhine about 112, and was ter-
minated by Marius about loi, before the Chrif-
tian aera.
And the intimation here given, that the Ger^
man Celtje acquired the name of Cimbri after
they had paffed the Rhine, and after they had
committed terrible devaftations in Gaul, appeal*
for its authority to another paffage of Plutarch,
which fays not, that the name was given on the
Gallic fide of the Rhine, but on the Germ.an,
which fays not, that the Gauls conferred the
appellation upon them, but that the Germans
ufually called a robber a Cimber. So much is
the proof in oppofition to the point
P. 28—29. " The German pofterlty of the
*' Gauls, under the name of Cimbri,—cut to
" pieces all the intermediate nations between
" their original feats and the Hellefpont (Ex-
** torres inopia agrorum, profe6ti domo, per af-
** perrimam Illyrici oram, Pceoniam inde et
** Thraciam, pugnando cum ferociffimis genti-^
" bus, menfi has terras ceperunt. Livius, lib.
** xxxviii.)."
I have produced this paffage again with the
new quotation annexed to it, to point out an-
other inftance of the inaccuracy which runs
through the prefent work,—In p. 24 we are
told.