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Gauls of Galatia Gauls of Galatia François Pierre Guillaume Guizot This article is taken from The History of France, live chiefly upon the produce of the chase and of by Maurice Guizot, Chapter 2, The Gauls out of their flocks; and when there is no longer enough Gaul. of forest or pasturage for the families that become too numerous, there is a swarm from the hive, and For Bible students, this history provides some in- a search for livelihood elsewhere. The Gauls em- sight into the type of people who occupied Galatia igrated in every direction. To find, as they said, during the early Christian era, and at the time of rivers and lands, they marched from north to south, the Apostle Paul. and from east to west. They crossed at one time About three centuries B.C. numerous hordes of the Rhine, at another the Alps, at another the Pyre- Gauls crossed the Alps and penetrated to the centre nees. More than fifteen centuries B.C. they had of Etruria, which is nowadays Tuscany. The Etr- already thrown themselves into Spain, after many uscans, being then at war with Rome, proposed to fights, no doubt, with the Iberians established be- take them, armed and equipped as they had come, tween the Pyrenees and the Garonne. They pene- into their own pay. “If you want our hands,” an- trated north-westwards to the northern point of the swered the Gauls, “against your enemies, the Ro- Peninsula, into the province which received from mans, here they are at your service–but on one con- them and still bears the name of Galicia; south- dition: give us lands.” eastwards to the southern point, between the river Anas (nowadays Guadiana) and the ocean, where A century afterwards other Gallic hordes, descend- they founded a Little Celtica; and centerwards and ing in like manner upon Italy, had commenced southwards from Castile to Andalusia, where the building houses and tilling fields along the Adri- amalgamation of two races brought about the cre- atic, on the territory where afterwards was Aquileia. ation of a new people, that found a place in his- The Roman Senate decreed that their settlement tory as Celtiberians. And twelve centuries after should be opposed, and that they should be sum- those events, about 220 B.C., we find the Gallic moned to give up their implements and even their people, which had planted itself in the south of arms. Not being in a position to resist, the Gauls Portugal, energetically defending its independence sent representatives to Rome. They, being intro- against the neighboring Carthaginian colonies. In- duced into the Senate, said, “The multitude of peo- dortius, their chief, conquered and taken prisoner, ple in Gaul, the want of lands, and necessity forced was beaten with rods and hung upon the cross, us to cross the Alps to seek a home. We saw plains in the sight of his army, after having had his uncultivated and uninhabited. We settled there eyes put out by command of Hamilcar-Barca, the without doing any one harm. We ask nothing Carthaginian general; but a Gallic slave took care but lands. We will live peacefully on them under to avenge him by assassinating, some years after, at the laws of the republic.” a hunting-party, Hasdrubal, son-in-law of Hamilcar, Again, a century later, or thereabouts, some Gal- who had succeeded to the command. The slave was lic Cimmerians, mingled with Teutons or Germans, put to the torture; but, indomitable in his hatred, said also to the Roman Senate, “Give us a little he died insulting the Africans. land as pay, and do what you please with our hands A little after the Gallic invasion of Spain, and and weapons.” by reason perhaps of that very movement, in the Want of room and means of subsistence have, in first half of the fourteenth century B.C., another fact, been the principal causes which have at all vast horde of Gauls, who called themselves Anahra, times thrust barbarous people, and especially the Ambra, Ambrons, that is, “braves,” crossed the Gauls, out of their fatherland. An immense ex- Alps, occupied northern Italy, descended even to tent of country is required for indolent hordes who the brink of the Tiber, and conferred the name Grace Notes, a ministry of Austin Bible Church http://gracenotes.info/ Gauls of Galatia 2 of Ambria or Umbria on the country where they to his camp. He treated them well, made them sit founded their dominion. If ancient accounts might at his table, took pleasure in exhibiting his magnif- be trusted, this dominion was glorious and flourish- icence before them, and in the midst of his carouse ing, for Umbria numbered, they say, three hundred made his interpreter ask them what they were most and fifty-eight towns; but falsehood, according to afraid of. the Eastern proverb, lurks by the cradle of nations. At a much later epoch, in the second century B.C., “We fear nought,” they answered, “unless it be the fifteen towns of Liguria contained altogether, as we fall of heaven; but we set above everything the learn from Livy, but twenty thousand souls. It is friendship of a man like thee.” “The Celts are plain, then, what must really have been– even ad- proud,” said Alexander to his Macedonians; and mitting their existence–the three hundred and fifty- he promised them his friendship. On the death eight towns of Umbria. However, at the end of two of Alexander, the Gauls, as mercenaries, entered, or three centuries, this Gallic colony succumbed be- in Europe and Asia, the service of the kings who neath the superior power of the Etruscans, another had been his generals. Ever greedy, fierce, and set of invaders from eastern Europe, perhaps from passionate, they were almost equally dangerous as the north of Greece, who founded in Italy a mighty auxiliaries and as neighbors. Antigonus, King of empire. The Umbrians or Ambrons were driven Macedonia, was to pay the band he had enrolled a out or subjugated. Nevertheless some of their peo- gold piece a head. They brought their wives and ples, preserving their name and manners, remained children with them, and at the end of the cam- in the mountains of upper Italy, where they were paign they claimed pay for their following as well to be subsequently discovered by fresh and more as for themselves: “We were promised,” said they, celebrated Gallic invasions. “a gold piece a head for each Gaul; and these are also Gauls.” Those just spoken of are of such antiquity and ob- Before long they tired of fighting the battles of an- scurity, that we note their place in history without other; their power accumulated; fresh hordes, in being able to say how they came to fill it. It is only great numbers, arrived amongst them about the with the sixth century before our era that we light year 281 B.C. They had before them Thrace, Mace- upon the really historical expeditions of the Gauls donia, Thessaly, Greece, rich, but distracted and away from Gaul, those, in fact, of which we may weakened by civil strife. They effected an entrance follow the course and estimate the effects. at several points, devastating, plundering, loading Towards the year 587 B.C., almost at the very mo- their cars with booty, and dividing their prisoners ment when the Phoceans had just founded Mar- into two parts; one offered in sacrifice to their gods, seilles, two great Gallic hordes got in motion at the other strung up to trees and abandoned to the the same time, and crossed, one the Rhine, the _gais_ and _matars,_ or javelins and pikes of the other the Alps, making one for Germany, the other conquerors. for Italy. The former followed the course of the Like all barbarians, they, both for pleasure and on Danube and settled in Illyria, on the right bank of principle, added insolence to ferocity. Their Brenn, the river. It is too much, perhaps, to say that they or most famous chieftain, whom the Latins and settled; the greater part of them continued wander- Greeks call Brennus, dragged in his train Macedo- ing and fighting, sometimes amalgamating with the nian prisoners, short, mean, and with shaven heads, peoples they encountered, sometimes chasing them and exhibiting them beside Gallic warriors, tall, ro- and exterminating them, whilst themselves were in- bust, long-haired, adorned with chains of gold, said, cessantly pushed forward by fresh bands coming “This is what we are, that is what our enemies are.” also from Gaul. Thus marching and spreading, leaving here and there on their route, along the Ptolemy the Thunderbolt, King of Macedonia, re- rivers and in the valleys of the Alps, tribes that ceived with haughtiness their first message requir- remained and founded peoples, the Gauls had ar- ing of him a ransom for his dominions if he wished rived, towards the year 340 B.C., at the confines of to preserve peace. “Tell those who sent you,” he Macedonia, at the time when Alexander, the son replied to the Gallic deputation, “to lay down their of Philip, who was already famous, was advanc- arms and give up to me their chieftains. I will then ing to the same point to restrain the ravages of see what peace I can grant them.” On the return of the neighboring tribes, perhaps of the Gauls them- the deputation, the Gauls were moved to laughter. selves. From curiosity, or a desire to make terms “He shall soon see,” said they, “whether it was in with Alexander, certain Gauls betook themselves his interest or our own that we offered him peace.” Grace Notes, a ministry of Austin Bible Church http://gracenotes.info/ Gauls of Galatia 3 And, indeed, in the first engagement, neither the HE BARE IT ON HIS LEFT ARM famous Macedonian phalanx, nor the elephant he WHEN TERRIBLE ARES CRUSHED rode, could save King Ptolemy; the phalanx was broken, the elephant riddled with javelins, the king THE GAULS.
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