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190 THE HISTORYwards, who cou'd then listen tomy reason^, andseem'd to taste them. Thns far have I been ledby the ravens of Artemidorns. But I have notrambl'd yet so far after birds as the old Gauls,"whereof a part (to use the words of Justhi afterTrogus*) settl'd inItaly, which took and burntthe city of Rome; while another part of them penetratedinto the Illyric bays, by the slaughter ofthe barbarians, and under the guidance of birds,(forthe Gauls excell all others in the skill of augury)settl'd in Pannonia": telling next, how,after dividing theirforces, they invaded Greece,Macedonia, and most parts of Asia, where theyfounded the Gallogrecian tetrarchy. But stillyou see they were birds, that guided those famousexpeditions.V. I have by good authorities shown before,that the antientest Greec writers had much greatercertainty, and knew many more particulars, concerningthe Brittish ilands, even the most remoteand minute, than such as came after them; by reasonthat the Grecian trade hither, open first bythe Phenicians, had been for a long tim.e interrup,ted, or rather quite abandon'd.Thus in time theoriginal relations came to be look'd u\khi as somany fables, at which I do not so much wonder* Ex his portio in Italia consedit, quae et urbem Ilomam cap,tam incendit; et portio Illyricos sinus, ducibus Avibus (namAugurandi studio Galli praeter ceteros callent) per strages barbarorumpenetravit, et ia Pannouia consedit. Lib. 24. cap. 4,