5

NOTES. 269
It is rather remarkable that CiEsar, who had a high esteem for
him, did not inform us of this circumstance.
Toland's quota,
tiou from Cicero may be rendered in English thus,—" And there
are also Druids in Gaul, of whom I myself was well acquainted,
with Dlvitiacus the Eduan, your entertainer and panegyrist, who
declared that the study of nature, which the Greeks call physiology,
was well known to him ;
and partly from augury, partly
from conjecture, foretold future events."'
Had Cicero not given us this information, there is a passage
in the lAfe of Divitiacus, which must for ever have remained inexplicable.
Caesar ordered Divitiacus to make head against his
brother Dumnorix. Divitiacus, among other things, says—
Quod si quid ei a Ccesare grdvius accidtsset, quum ipse eum locinn
amiciticE apud eum teneret, neminem existimaturmn, nom sua vo.
hintate factum ; qua ex refuturutn, uii totius Gallice animi a se
avertereniur.—Cassar, lib. 1. cap. 20. i. e. "If Caesar should
inflict any severe punishment on his brother, whilst he himself
stood so high in Csesar's
friendship, every one would imagine it
was done with his concurrence, and hence the affections of all
Gaul would be alienated from him." How should a private individual
in the petty state of the ^^dui, be afraid of losing the
good opinion of all Gaul ? The question is unanswerable, till
we are made acquainted that he was their Archdruid, and thea
every difficulty vanishes.
Note XXII.—Page 79,
Proposes taking a journey for six months, S^c,—Mr. Toland
Lad it in contemplation to write a larger History of the Druids,
which he did not live to accomplish. What is now offered to
the public is contained in three letters, addressed to the Lord
Viscount Molesworth, his patron and benefactor.
intended to meet the public eye, but was published,
It was never
along with
some other posthumous pieces, about five years after his death.
The last of these letters is dated April 18, 1719, and he died
the 11th Marchj 17i22.
Posterity has long regretted, and will
M m