Strabo mentions an embassy sént from the C e lts;o f th e
Adriatic to the' camp of Alexander during his ‘expedition jn to
Thrace. As thé Celts had about this time Settlements on the.
Danube, it is perhaps more probable that it wasr from* this
quarter that ambassadors were sent, namely, from the country
of the Scordisci.
It does not appear that the Scordisci were old, inhabitants
of the borders of the Lower Danube:, they had overspread
the countries possessed of old , by : the Tribaili and other
Thracian tribes. It is probable that they arrived in fhis
country shortly before the time of Alexander. They may
with the greatest probability be derived from: the nearest bands
of the Celtic race, from^those who had advanced furthest
towards The- east. These were the Taurisci of the,; Alps and
the Boii and Tectosages of the llereynian Forest.'
On a; general survey of the tribes-spread through southern
Germany, and in Pannonia and the Alpine countries, it appears
that Celtic races, of whom the Boii and Tééfrösages' are
the most remarkable, were the earliest known inhabitant-s-éf-
the tracts comprehended in the Orcynia of the Gauls and the
Ilercynian Forest of Roman writers.. The Boii are not? totbe
traced from Gaul, and not further westward than the confined -
of the Ilelvetii: they were probably the primitive inhabitantev
of the countries on the Danube, and reached as far northward
as Bohemia. It is probable that the Gythones, a Small, tribe
who remained in the north-east of Germany in the timeipf
Tacitus and spoke the language of the Gauls, were a remnant
of the expelled Boii. - The Tectosages appear to havedaeeSi
nearly allied to the Boii, since we find them joined in many’
parts. The other nations enumerated are evidently Celtic/ as
the Scordisci, Taurisci, Vindelici, Rhasti, but nothing indicates'
that they were ever inhabitants of Gaul.
S e c t io n V II.— O f the Colony o f Gauls in Asia Minor.
Of all the foreign conquests or settlements of the Gauls
none is mpre celebrated than that in Asia Minor, where this
people were .known/ as Indeed were,the Gauls in general,
by the n^ameVof, Galatae.
It is irnpQrtant^.totie4eLipintej/froml what tribes of European
Gauls originated the^G^!fefklEs'iGaulsS>pf Asia Minor. We
have sep%|ha|?ofjarll, the, Gallic .tribes^ the Boii were the most
1pb.werfuldiSiieBma^^aifd „thenmost widely, spread* From no
ofhqr tribe should^s^-.iiifm^iQpnjectuxe, d e r i^ th e Gallip cop-
fedpr^cy ,ip Asia.0with ss, m A probability as, from them.
T^y^ibobeii Ay|pg,4pi fack/%® naBg -e ^ gBfirofifche. three divisions
of, (peop\% in «thjey'Gplg^a^'wejRe divided-r- In
Q,raek their narpcds, written Tolisthobogij,, ias^*thaJt^o^jfehe Boii
ip, writte,nJB,pgih,^^
- ,4vHp(gpthdr, wijth Bgji:i.there, .\^erejip. ^parts’ rfof,^Germany other
tribes,basf thp^Yolcae|•jT(ectqr^ g ies,f sprea,d£j|§dqugh the Her-
cynjiart ..Fo|i§tA Tpese,-,yolcaa T e^ te 's^ e^ eapH as iwe have,
Kg.on;ffrom Cfilt^apl^arbor^sjsi^, and^frpjn^the ,m©M|r emote
part of it^^ea^4,t@^%®iyYy^fJ^P§®> or" ftfSajjaai. * to.-. the^feputh-
wp^ward c>f Mou^t ^ fem m en u ^ Thu^We' find the Tec-
•■faasanp.1^. t.o, have, been a wandpriipg warlike .people, who'll ad
plantgdr tbei r gp am e l i p , tw ; o d i s t a n t countries,»arid .there
i|jgQ much (thp l2$&.,.pasqn |g|| doubt „when we find them in a
thirdsreglpri« The Tectpsftges {were in. fact tte| deadmg and
lnaSti^eel.ebrated tribe ;^,niqpg the, Galatea ;of Asia. A third
namq^a°t. ^.easily, .tracedis that of the Trocmi, .oh the ,origin
of whom ij^ffi^b^knew nothing, thoughihe • was satisfied!. of
tlae derivation of the Tectosages from the Wolcm of Southern
Qayl.
Strabo^,considered itejas a thing .ascertainedathat the Tee-
tqsages of Galatia in Asia Minor, were a branch of the Volcae
T^tpsages of N arbonensis. He says that the disappearanceof
the two. other names from Gaul, namely, those of Tolisthoboii
and Trocmi, was' not to< be wondered at, since among tribes of
* I t is very probable that the Tolisthoboii were a tribe of Boii/and that the
prefix to their name is taken from some epithet* or perhaps from a place where
they settled. In fact Ptolemy mentions a place termed<T6Aqara %6>pa in their
country. Lib. v. c.- 6. This is observed by M. Zeuss, who remarks-that another
Celtic name was preserved in-Macedonia. Livy observes that the third region of
Macedonia contained the famous town of Efiessa, &c.,et qt, Vettiorum bellicosam
gentem, incolas quoquepermultos Gallos et Iilyricos.” Vettii appears to be a Celtic
clan-name, since"5>olovettius is a personal name.- Liv. lib. xlv. c. 30.