150 REMARKS ON FOUR EXTRACTS 
(usxpw mporegov) could not have been used. The 
Gauls were never at peace before the invasion 
of the Roman Triumvir; and the changes which 
followed after his conquests required a consi- 
derable time to be consolidated—to change 
them from warlike tribes into peaceable hus- 
bandmen and cultivators of learning. Accord- 
ingly he says, that the change had but lately 
taken place. 
It may be presumed perhaps, that the Gauls 
would be glad to avail themselves of the neigh- 
bourhood of a Grecian colony, so long settled 
at Marseilles, to acquire the knowledge of let- 
ters, and receive the rudiments of civilization. 
But many circumstances render such a presum- 
tion improbable. The number of the colonists 
was inconsiderable; and it does not appear that 
they extended their limits, or acquired any in- 
fluence on the affairs of Gaul. They were situa- 
ted at the remotest extremity of the country. 
Their neighbours were constantly at enmity with 
them, as we learn from Justin.* With the 
remoter tribes they could have no communica- 
tion. The state also of the various nations of 
* See Lib. 43, cap. 5. It is true that Justin says, that the 
Gauls learnt many of the arts of life from the Greeks; but his 
language is general and, evidently, rhetorical. 
