146 REMARKS ON FOUR EXTRACTS 
in this discipline: for it is deemed unlawful to 
commit those things to writing; whereas in al- 
most all other things, their private and public 
affairs, they make use of Greek characters. They 
seem to me to follow this method for two reasons: 
—to hide their mysteries from the knowledge of 
the vulgar, and to exercise the memory of their 
scholars; which would be apt to lie neglected, 
had they letters to trust to, as we find is often 
the case.” 
Fourtsy Extract: Lib. 1. 19. 
Itaque priusquam (Czsar) quidquam conare- 
tur, Divitiacum ad se vocari jubet, et, quotidianis 
interpretibus remotis, per C. Valerium Proscil- 
lum, principem Galliz provincie, familiarem 
suum, cui summam rerum omnium fidem habe- 
bat, cum eo colloquitur. 
TRANSLATION. 
“ Before he, therefore, took any further steps 
in the affair, he sent for Divitiacus: and having 
removed the usual interpreters, addressed him 
through C. Valerius Procillus, a prince (or chief) 
of the province of Gaul, his intimate friend, in 
whom he reposed the greatest confidence.” 
