156 REMARKS ON FOUR EXTRACTS 
Grecis—in Greek letters—lest the matter they 
contained should be disclosed to the people. 
It seems they recorded their public and pri- 
vate transactions in Greek letters; but they 
were prohibited from committing the Druidie 
lore to writing in the same manner—“ to hide 
their mysteries from the knowledge of the vul- 
gar,” or mass of the people—But the mass 
of the people, as before observed, were not ac- 
quainted with Greek; and itis scarcely possible 
to conceive , how they could acquire the know- 
ledge of it, although it was not by any means 
difficult to write their own language in the Greek 
characters. 
We infer from the fourth Extract, that Divi- 
tiacus, the Eduan, was ignorant both of the 
Greek and Latin languages ; for Cesar was un- 
der the necessity of holding a conference with 
him through an interpreter. This, I presume, 
is the same Divitiacus, who is mentioned by Ci- 
cero in the treatise, De Divinat. Lis. L, c. 41. 
He was, therefore, a person of the highest rank, 
and also a Druid; and his country was not so 
distant from Marseilles as most of the other 
kingdoms of Gaul. We are also informed that 
Orgetorix, the Helvetian chief, was intimately 
