WHAT, BEFORE OTHERS,

ARE THE CAUSES THAT IMPELLED THE AUTHOR TO

write concerning the letters of the Phoenicians & the origins of Gaul.

The highest vow of life

1. Since whatever things are to be placed among the primary vows of happiness, all those things were present in the constitution of the Gallic race, as we have related in the work on the Institutions and Doctrines of the Druids, and in that which is inscribed on the origins of Gaul. Strabo also writes this.

The first arrival from heaven into Gaul.

2. The summit of celestial influence, after the Syriac, falls with power upon Gaul and those provinces which had their origin from it. There is, moreover, a secondary aspect of the sign of Aries, as it is permitted to see in Ptolemy.

The first law of the world.

3. The primogeniture of this world (whence the right of the firstborn) granted by Janus or Noah through Japheth to Gomer himself, the author and institutor of the Gallic race, as Josephus is witness, shows that it is the first nation in the right of possession of the world.

The first race of the world.

4. The race of the Umbrians, the most ancient of Italy after the flood, nevertheless has its origin from the Gallic race,