FROM THE COMMENTARIES OF CESAR. 157 
connected with the family to which Divitiacus 
belonged, having given his daughter in marriage 
to his brother Dumnorix; and it is not proba- 
ble, that their literary attainments were of a 
different order. 
It may be said perhaps, that Cesar held con- 
ferences with the Helvetian ambassadors with- 
out interpreters: see ch. vil of B. 1. But the 
intervention of interpreters on ordinary occa- 
sions, is seldom mentioned ; and it would not 
have been noticed in the case of Divitiacus, but 
for the peculiar nature of the circumstances. 
Cicero in speaking of conferences with the same 
Divitiacus, gives no intimation of the use of in- 
terpreters ; and yet if he was ignorant both of 
Latin and Greek, they were certainly indispen- 
sible. 
These facts abundantly confirm our interpre- 
tation of the expression littere Grece, as used 
by Cesar in the Extracts above given ; and also 
prove, I think demonstratively, that if the noble 
Druid, Divitiacus had any knowledge of Greek, 
it was only of its first elements or letters, for the 
purpose of writing his own language. 
