FROM THE COMMENTARIES OF CESAR. 155 
man; lest, if the letter should be intercepted, 
his plans should become known to the enemy. 
It is scarcely necessary to observe by the way, 
that Cesar and Cicero were well versed in Greek. 
From this extract then it is easy to be inferred, 
that by litteris Grecis is meant the Greek lan- 
guage; and also that that languagewas not known 
to the Gauls; otherwise Cesar could not conceal 
his designs from the enemy by making use of it 
in his dispatch. For though in the first instance 
the letter might fall into the hands of the igno- 
rant, it would doubtless be soon conveyed to 
some of the ingenui, or superior class,—those 
who have been supposed to possess the know- 
ledge of the Greek language. 
From the third Extract it appears to me, that 
the inference is direct and almost unavoidable, 
that the Druids wrote the Celtic language in 
Greek characters. The twenty thousand verses, 
which were required to be committed to me- 
mory, were undoubtedly rehearsed in that 
language. Yet they were these very verses 
which they were not allowed to write litteris 
scriptam litteris ; and in the third, it is, litter’s Grecis utuntur. 
I derive no argument from the difference of expression—con- 
Secte, conscripte and utuntur—because I am not sure it could 
be sustained. 
