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bearing that Title, & whofe Names were Saturn and jTi*. 
piter, doing great things , though with a mixture of 
Vices and Diiorders towards their Friends. They were 
called Gods of the Firft Order, by which may be (ecn 
their Brutality, and what they did to inveigle and de- 
ceive Men ; \ fay, th^ firfl Greeks and Ancient Latins^ 
are the Abbot's words. You will fee, Sir, their Adions, 
as well good as bad, defcribed in this Fifth Book, but 
it fhall be free from all ridiculous Fables and Fictions of 
the Poets, for the whole Narration fliall be Authentick, 
and bear moft Ancient Truth. ^ In the Conclufion of 
this Paragraph the Abbot feems to be tranfported, and 
cannot expreft whether it was a Vifion or Antiquity he 
had been delineating, and returns again to the Titan or 
Celtic Princes, who Reigned a long time in Greece and 
Jtaly^ where Saturn^ being perfecuied by his own Sons, 
fled for Refuge. Their Language was Co mixed with 
Greeks that it became almoft /Eolick^ which is confo- 
nant to the Ancient Latin. 
Then he tells the Ahbe de Nicaife^ how it will fur- 
prize him, when he relates fbme words which agree 
with the Celtic J efpecially in Numbers for Example. 
The Celtic (ay dec^ Ten, and the Greek S{>^ the 
Celtic call Four pedwar, and the jEolians IleTOf j the 
Celtic fay undec^ Eleven, davodec^ Twelve, S?r. and the 
Greek^'B.vS^XSi^^ ^ce^t(;^y &c. He goes on, afTuring him 
that he finds above izoo Latin words in the Ctltic^ 
and fays, he will leave it to any learned Man, who 
(he is fure) cannot be againfl: what feems fo true^viz, 
to judge, that the Celtics had thefe words from the 
Greeks and Latins. It remains then lefs furprizing, that 
the Latin Tongue 'fliould have fb many of the Celtic 
or Gaulic words. But the Omhrians (continues our 
Author ) being the ancienteft People of Italy, border- 
ing and mixing with them, from the beginning, who 
were 
