On Phoenician Letters

of a conflict, the Druids would settle inflamed princes by their presence and nod alone, not to speak of rebuke, and compel them to lay down their arms. Caesar, Strabo, Diodorus. Therefore, the Gauls alone, although they are otherwise most warlike and more than men, used the legitimate commands of a perfect Republic, until faction gradually arose among them, and ambition and luxury, which even up to now has destroyed the law of Nature, Scripture, and Grace everywhere and overturned all things. Whence, just as they have the first aspect of heaven after the Phoenicians, so they held in the second place all things that were most excellent among the Jews.

Gallic princes, pupils of philosophy.

7. The highest happiness of the whole world must have been present from the beginning of the Gallic Republic, when either philosophers, or those who were compelled to obey philosophers, such as were the pupils of the Druids, strove to govern the reins of that nation.

The first occupation and possession of Europe.

8. The first literary memory of the entire European orb, from Cadiz all the way to Asia, is read to have been legitimately occupied by the Gauls, in such a way that the name of the Celts was scattered from there into the whole of Europe.