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Character of the Gauls
Such was the end of the Celtic war: which, for the
B.C. 480. B.C. 279.
desperate determination and boldness of the enemy, for the
obstinacy of the battles fought, and for the number of those
who fell and of those who were engaged, is second to none
recorded in history, but which, regarded as a specimen of
scientific strategy, is utterly contemptible. The Gauls showed
no power of planning or carrying out a campaign, and in
everything they did were swayed by impulse rather than by
sober calculation. As I have seen these tribes, after a short
struggle, entirely ejected from the valley of the Padus, with
the exception of some few localities lying close to the Alps, I
thought I ought not to let their original attack upon Italy pass
unrecorded, any more than their subsequent attempts, or their
final ejectment: for it is the function of the historian to record
and transmit to posterity such episodes in the drama of
Fortune; that our posterity may not from ignorance of
The Third Treaty
A third treaty again was made by Rome at the time of
Third treaty, B.C. 279.
the invasion of Pyrrhus into Sicily; before the
Carthaginians undertook the war for the possession of Sicily. This treaty contains the same
provisions as the two earlier treaties with these additional
clauses:—
"If they make a treaty of alliance with Pyrrhus, the
Romans or Carthaginians shall make it on such terms as
not to preclude the one giving aid to the other, if that one's
territory is attacked.
"If one or the other stand in need of help, the Carthaginians shall supply the ships, whether for transport or war;
but each people shall supply the pay for its own men employed
on them.
The Carthaginians shall also give aid by sea to the
Romans if need be; but no one shall compel the crews to
disembark against their will."
Provision was also made for swearing to these treaties. In
the case of the first, the Carthaginians were to swear by the
gods of their ancestors, the Romans by Jupiter Lapi
Byzantium, The Gauls, And Rhodians
These Gauls had left their country with Brennus, and
The Gauls, B. C. 279.
having survived the battle at Delphi and made
their way to the Hellespont, instead of crossing to Asia, were captivated by the beauty
of the district round Byzantium, and settled there. Then,
having conquered the Thracians and erected TyleOr Tylis, according to Stephanos Byz., who says it was near the Haemus.
Perhaps the modern Kilios. into
a capital, they placed the Byzantines in extreme danger. In
their earlier attacks, made under the command of Comontorius
their first king, the Byzantines always bought them off by
presents amounting to three, or five, or sometimes even ten
thousand gold pieces, on condition of their not devastating
their territory: and at last were compelled to agree to pay
them a yearly tribute of eighty talents, until the time of Cavarus,
in whose reign their kingdom came to an end; and their whole
tribe, being in their turn conquered by the Thracians,
Services of Macedonians To Greece
"Not being able to say anything in defence of
B.C. 279.
any of these acts, you talk pompously about
your having resisted the invasion of Delphi
by the barbarians, and allege that for this Greece ought
to be grateful to you. But if for this one service some gratitude is owing to the Aetolians; what high honour do the
Macedonians deserve, who throughout nearly their whole
lives are ceaselessly engaged in a struggle with the barbarians
for the safety of the Greeks? For that Greece would have
been continually involved in great dangers, if we had not had
the Macedonians and the ambition of their kings as a barrier,
who is ignorant? And there is a very striking
proof of this. Defeat and death of Ptolemy Ceraunus in the battle
with the Gauls, B.C. 280. See Pausan. 10.19.7. For no sooner had the Gauls
conceived a contempt for the Macedonians, by
their victory over Ptolemy Ceraunus, than,
thinking the rest of no account, Brennus
promptly marched into the midd