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

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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
have broke into Greece, to have attacked Del-
phi, and to have ravaged Afia, thefe appear to
have been denominated equally Galli, Celt^,
Cimmerii, or Cimbri, The Celtic, who are
called Cimbri, fays Appian, encamped againft
Delphi : KsT^oig, roig ksfoiMSvoig K//xSpo/f, stt:
AsXfpoiQ o-vgpajiva-ai ^ Speaking of the Teutones
and Cimbri, Plutarch fays that the Cimmerii
were firft known to the Greeks in former ages,
Kijxjxsfjioov TO jx-v rs-coojov V(^ 'EXkVlV'jOV tocv 'ZiroiKoci
yvooo-Qiviicv -. The Gauls, fays Diodorus, who in
antient times overran all Afia, were denomi-
nated Cimmerii : sv roig 'ss-aXoncig xpcvoig lag Ko-lccv
(xnroiToc)) y^ajoi^pczixovjoig, cvoixocc^cy^ivag h Kii^fj^sptag 3.
And the Galatae cf the Greeks, fays Jofephus,
were foVmerly called Gomarians j t»^ [xsv pvv v(p^
KXXyjvoov Ta.X(xlag JcaAs/xJvyc, Tcjxoipeig 7\S'yo^sviig 4.
The Celtse of Germany therefore muft, equally
with the Celtte of Greece and Afia, have carried
the nanie into all the countries that they con-
quered. And it w?.s net any appropriated
difcinftion of the Celtas in Germany or Greece
^ P. 1:96. Ami'lel. * Vol. ii. p. 495. Bryan.
3 P. 35^.
'' Ant. lib. 1. c. 7. And, in confirmation of this pafTage
of Jofephus, Mr. Pezron has very juilly remarked, that feve-
ral others of the antients have afferted the fame, Eullathius of
Antioch in his, Tct^xi^ or»; Ta.iA.ot,^u