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176 THE HISTORYM'riters, where there is not some peculiar occasionof inserting them.III. In my third instance I return again to Hercules,of whojn a story is tohl in the same book,whence we had tiie hist; which, tho' related andreconnnended by tiie auihor as a good argumentfor a poem, affords, however, no small illustration,to M hat I maintain, by much more positive proofs,viz. that " Great Britain was denominated fromthe province of Britain in Gaule, and that fromGaule the origmal inhabitants of all theBrittishHands (I mean those of Caesar's time) are descended."Listen for a moment to Pardienius. " Tis.said that Hercules*, as he drove away from Eryihia-)the oxen of Geryon, had pentrated into theregion of the Gauls, and that he came as far asEretannus, who had a daughter call'd Celtina.Tills young woman falliiig in love with Hercules,hid his oxen: and wou'd not restore them, till hesliou'd injoy her first.Now Hercules being desirousto recover his oxen, and much more admiringthe beauty of the maid, he lay with her; andin due time was born to them a son nam'd Celtus J,from whom tlie Celts are so denominated. *'Manytrtt; K£Xt