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it.OF THE DRUIDS. 77Tliey made liyiims for the use of tlic temples,'ris true, and manag'd the music there; but they•were the Druids that officiated as priests, and nosacrifices were oifer'd but by their ministry.X. In the history likewise shall be fully explain'dthe third order of the Celtic Literati, bythe Greecs called Ouateis, and by the RomansVates; which yet is neither Greec nor Roman,but a mere Celticword, viz. Faidh, which signifiesto this day a prophet in all Irish books, andin the common language, particularly in the Irishtranslation of the Bible; where Druids* are alsocommonly put for inchanters, as those of Egypt,and especially for theMages, or as we translate,the wise menf that came from the East, to visitJesus in his cradle. So easily do men conveytheir own ideas into other men s books, or findem there; which has been the source of infinitemistakes, not only in divinity, but also in philosophyand philology. The Celtic Vaids J,werephysicians and diviners, great proficients in naturalphilosophy, as were likewise the Druids, who* Draoithe, Exod. 7. 11. Anols Draoithe na Ilegipte dorjnnedursanfos aran modhgceadna le nandroigheachtuibh.t Mat. 2. 1. Feuch Tangadar Draoithe o naird shoir go Hlarusalem.i The word Faidh (or Vait by the usual conversion of tlicletters F into F, and D into T) whence the Latin made Fates;and their critics acknowledge, that they took many words fromthe Gauls. The Euchagcs and Ezibages, in some copies of AmmianusMarccllinus, are false readingSj as in time will appear.