they
were no less accountable to, and subject to the Power of the People,
than the People was to theirs; insomuch that those _Kingdoms_ seem'd
nothing else but _Magistracies for Life_. For Caesar makes mention of
several _private Men_, whose _Ancestors_ had formerly been _such Kings_;
among these he reckons _Casticus_, the Son of _Catamantales_, whose
Father had been King of the _Sequani_ many Years, _lib._ 1. _cap._ 2.
and _Piso_ the _Aquitanian_, lib. 4. cap. 3. also _Tasgetius_, whose
Ancestors had been Kings among the _Carnutes_, lib. 5. cap. 8.

Now concerning the Extent of their _Power_ and _Jurisdiction_, he brings
in _Ambiorix_, King of the _Eburones_, giving an account of it, _lib._
5. _cap._ 8. "The Constitution of our Government is such (says he) that
the People have no less Power and Authority over me than I have over the
People. _Non minus habet in me juris multitudo, quam ipse in
multitudinem._" Which Form of Government, _Plato, Aristotle, Polybius_
and _Cicero_ have for this Reason determined to be the _best_ and _most
Excellent_: "Because (says _Plato_) shou'd Kingly Government be left
without a Bridle, when it has attained to supreme Power, as if it stood
upon a slippery Place, it easily falls into Tyranny: And therefore it
ought to be restrained as with a Curb, by the Authority of the Nobles;
and such chosen men as the People have empower'd to that End and
Purpose."

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CHAP. II.

_Probable Conjectures concerning the_ ancient Language _of
the_ Gauls.

In this Place it seems proper to handle a Question much disputed and
canvass'd by Learned Men; _viz._ What was the Language of the Gauls in
those old Times? For as to what belongs to their Religion, Laws, and the
Customs of the People, _Caesar_, as I said before, has at large given us
an account. In the first place we ought to take notice, that _Caesar_, in
the Beginning of his Commentaries, where he divides the Gauls into Three
Nations, the _Belgae_, the _Aquitanae_, and the _Celtae_, tells us they all
differ'd, not only in their _Customs_, but in their _Language_ [Footnote:
[Greek: all enious micron parallattontas tais glottais]]: Which also
_Strabo_ confirms, _lib._ 4. where he says they were not [Greek:
homolhottous], of one Language, but a little differing in their
Languages. And the same thing _Ammianus Marcellinus_ testifies in his
15th Book. But what many Learned Men (especially of our own