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122 THE HISTORYheal'^; which word in the Armorican dialect is oilyach,in the Welsli ol-hiacli, and in the Irish uiliceach.Here, by the way, we may observe, that asthe Greecs had many words from the barbarians,for which Plato in his Cratylus]\]vid^e^ it wouklbe lost labor to seek etymologies in their own language:so it is remarkable, that certain feasts ofApollo were call'd Carnea%, from the killing of nobody knows what Prophet Carnus. Some saidthat he was the son of Jupiter and Europa, kilFd fora magician by one Ales :and others yet, that Carniwas a common name for an order of prophets inArcanania.Apollo himself was surnamed Carnus§;and, from him, May was calFd the Carneanmonth. Nay, there were Carman priests, and aparticular kind of music, which we may interpretthe Cairn-tunes, was appropriated to those festivalsin May, perfectly answering those of the Celtictribes. It is therefore highly probable, thatthe Greecs did learn these things from the Gaulstheir conquerors, and in many places seatedamong them; or from some of their travellors inGaule itself, if not from the Phocean colony atMarseilles. We know further, that the making ofhymns was a special part of the bards office; who* Omnia-sanantem appellantes suo yocabulo, &c. Lib. 16.eap. 44.c«tv»Vj 1% tg TO woy.a. rvy^ciiii &y, naQci on (tirofn «y. Inter opera, edit, Paris,'vol. 1 . }:ag. 409.