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apt to embroil Affairs, and to sow Dissentions or Animosities between the several _Commonwealths_. These they joined with in Friendship and Society, and by most honourable publick Decrees called them their _Friends_ and _Confederates_: And many of these _Kings_ purchased, at a great Expence, this Verbal Honour from the _Chief Men_ of _Rome_. Now the _Gauls_ called such, _Reges_, or rather _Reguli_, which were chosen, not for a certain Term, (as the Magistrates of the Free Cities were) but for their Lives; tho' their Territories were never so small and inconsiderable: And these, when Customs came to be changed by Time, were afterwards called by the Names of _Dukes, Earls_, and _Marquisses_. Of the _Commonwealths_ or _Cities_, some were much more potent than others; and upon these the lesser _Commonwealths_ depended; these they put themselves under for Protection: Such weak Cities _Caesar_ sometimes calls the _Tributaries_ and _Subjects_ of the former; but, for the most part he says, they were in _Confederacy_ with them. _Livius_ writes, _lib. 5._ that when _Tarquinius Priscus_ reigned in _Rome_, the _Bituriges_ had the principal Authority among the _Celtae_, and gave a _King_ to them. When _Caesar_ first enter'd _Gaul_, A.U.C. 695. he found it divided into Two Factions; the _AEdui_ were at the Head of the one, the _Arverni_ of the other, who many Years contended for the Superiority: But that which greatly increas'd this Contention, was, Because the _Bituriges_, who were next Neighbours to the _Arverni_, were yet _in file & imperio_ that is, Subjects and Allies to the _AEdui_. On the other hand, the _Sequani_ (tho' Borderers on the _AEdui_) were under the Protection of the _Arverni_, lib. 1. Cap. 12. lib. 6. cap. 4. The _Romans_ finding such-like Dissention; to be for their Interest; that is, proper Opportunities to enlarge their own Power, did all they cou'd to foment them: And therefore made a League with the _AEdui_, whom (with a great many Compliments) they titled _Brothers and Friends of the People of Rome_. Under the Protection and League of the _AEdui_, I find to have been first the _Senones_, with whom some time before the _Parisians_ had join'd their _Commonwealth_ in League and Amity. Next, the _Bellouaci_, who had nevertheless a great City of their own, abounding in Numbers of People, and were of principal Authority and Repute among the _Belgae_, lib. 2. cap. 4. and lib. 7. cap. 7. _Caesar_ reckons the _Centr
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