Chap. II. ANTTENT METAPHYSICS. 145 



Europe J for they wejit through Thrace and Macedonia; and, crof- 

 fing the Hellefpont, made a fettlement in Afia, inhabiting there a 

 country which was firft called Gallo-Gr:Ecia, and, in later ti.nes, Ga- 

 lacia*. According to Livy, this fettlement, which they made in Afia, 

 was at the fame dme that Brennus attacked Greece with fo prodigious 

 an army: And, about five years before that, there were prodigi- 

 ous numbers of them deftroyed by the Romans in Cifalpine Gaul f . 

 About 45 years afterwards there was a greater migraiion from Gaul 

 into Italy, than ever was before at one time, upon the occafion 

 ■which Polybius mentions J ; fo that it would appe ir that the coun- 

 try was far from being exhaufted of men, eitlier by their for:;]er 

 migrations into Italy, or by ^he prodigious armies they fent in:o 

 Greece and Afia. This laft incurfion of the Gauls into Italy produc- 

 ed fo great a terror among the Romans; th\t thev made fuch prepara- 

 tions for war as they appear never to lade upon any oth.r oc- 



cafion ; and it terminated in a battle ol a very angular kind, which 

 is defcribed by Polybius at great length §. 



The next great migration.,! iha • i'^ tha- of the Cimbers 



and Teutons, who came from !■ .t oi i^urope and the 



north-eaft parts of Afia,, OK . iufarch, in his life of 



Caius Maiius, lias givci " .^ ^..= ..cuiar account^ to which I. 

 refer. 



. The laft migration ! (hi\^ niention is that o^the G^^/y^j-, Vandals^ 

 Heruli^ and other bubarc- ;ion3, wl^lch came from the eaftern 



parts of Europe and /\fia,aiid, like an inundation, overwhelmed the 

 Roman Empire. Thefe, as wc are affuied by a cotemporary hifto- 



rian, 

 * See the account of this migration in Livy, Lib. 38. Cnp. \6. 



f Poiybiu?, Lib. 2. p. tc8. Whc-re he gives u particular a<:count of the migrntica of 

 the Gauls from their nauvc ct/untry into Italy, p. 105, 

 \ Ibid. p. 109. and iio. ^ 



§ Ibid. p. no, — 118. 



