Now Tacitus in his Life of Agricola, attributes, the Loss of this their so remarkable Valour, to the Loss of their Liberty. "Gallos in bellis floruisse accepimus, mox segnities cum otio intravit, amissa Virtute pariter ac Libertate—.”  And I hope the Reader will excuse me, if the Love of my Country makes me add that remarkable Testimony of the Valour of the Gauls, mentioned by Justin, lib. 24.—­“The Gauls (says he) finding their Multitudes to increase so fast, that their Lands cou’d not afford them sufficient Sustenance, sent out Three hundred thousand Souls to seek for new Habitations.  Part of these:  seated themselves in Italy; who both took and burnt the City of Rome.  Another part penetrated as far as the Shores of Dalmatia, destroying infinite Numbers of the Barbarians, and settled themselves at last in Pannonia.  A hardy bold and warlike Nation; who ventured next after Hercules, (to whom the like Attempt gave a Reputation of extraordinary Valour, and a Title to Immortality) to cross those almost inaccessible Rocks of the Alps, and Places scarce passable by Reason of the Cold:  Where after having totally subdued the Pannonians they waged War with the bordering Provinces for many Years.—­And afterwards—­being encouraged by their Success, subdivided their Parties; when some took their Way to Graecia some to Macedonia, destroying all before them with Fire and Sword.  And so great was the Terror of the Name of the Gauls, that several Kings (not in the least threatned by them) of their own accord, purchased their Peace with large Sums of Money—.  And in the following Book, he says,—­So great was the Fruitfulness of the Gauls at that time, that like a Swarm they fill’d all Asia.  So that none of the Eastern Kings either ventured to make War without a mercenary Army of Gauls, or fled for Refuge to other than the Gauls, when they were driven out of their Kingdoms.”  And thus much may suffice concerning their warlike Praises and Fortitude, which (as Tacitus tells us) was quite gone, as soon as they lost their Liberty.  Yet some Cities, or Commonwealths, (as Phnius, lib. 4. cap. 11. tells us) were permitted to continue free, after the Romans had reduced Gallia to the Form of a Province.  Such were the Nervii, Ulbanesses, Suessiones and Leuci.  Also some of the Confederates:  and among these he reckons the Lingones, Rhemi, Carnutes and AEdui.

But we may easily learn from these Words of Critegnatus the Arvernian, mentioned by Caesar, lib. 7. what the Condition was of those Commonwealths, which had the Misfortune to be reduced into the Form of a Province.  “If” (says he) “you are ignorant after what manner far distant Nations are used by the Romans, you have no more to do, but to look at our neighbouring Gallia, now reduced into the Form of a Province:  Which having its Laws and Customs chang’d, and being subjected to the Power of the Axes, is oppress’d with perpetual Slavery.”