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fo the fame may be faid of our antkni Britaifis who 
were very religious and obferv’d the- Rules of their 
Priefis, and took extraordinary Might in Cetile, 
whence perhaps they might afFed to. have the figures 
of Beafts cut upon their Bodies. From what has been 
laid down I hope ’tis plain that the arid Brk 
laws were of the fame Original. -Wh^t' wc have 
next to do is to fee what were, us’d by the 
Gauls. There are feverai Jutkors that have written 
of the Nature of them, and particularly Cluver and 
Boxhorn. Their Idatnes are Sfatha;’ 
gdifum') lancea^ fparun/^ cateia^ wataris ov T2Lt\\^ niateris 
^ not fnatara , macha^ra , yuiiU, or 
(?z) thjreos, and cetrum or cetra. I fhall not here iiiiift 
upon the Signification or reafon of the AWr/, but on- 
ly obferve in general that the gejfium was a ‘Javelin, 
the fparuns, cat ei a and mat avis were different Sorts of 
Darts, and that the thyreos was ah oblong and the cetrum 
a fiort fort of Shield. So that the Spat ha only remains 
(tor the nature of the Lance is well known) to be 
compar’d with the Weapons we are confidering. 'Tis 
call’d by the Italians S P J D J, and by the Spaniards 
ESPJDJ. From the Defeription that I fid or e h^s 
left 03 of it, we are inform’d that ’twas a two'cdgd' 
Sreord, with which they cut and did not ihrufl. Whence 
’tis plain thefe Arms had rot fiarp Tops, agreeable to 
wh&i f ivy {oj has related that their gladij were pr^- 
hngi, ac fine mucronihus. And Polybius has the lame 
reafon why they did not pufh with them. Hence it 
is ckar that our Infirnments which have T\oiiwo Edges, 
but are dull like wedges were not fpath£, and fince they 
do not agree to any of the other Galnck hzflrumcnts 
(H^SeeUvylih.VlM. c. 24, Edit. Olon. (0) A/T'. XXII. c. 46 
Edit. Oion. 
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