anation than the former;
because though many ancient Writers (as we just now said) frequently
used the Expression, _Uti litteris_ for _Scribere_; yet I never
observ'd, that any of them ever used it to signify the _Forms_ and
_Fashions_ of the _Characters_. Neither does it make at all for their
Opinion, what _Caesar_ says in the First Book of his Commentaries, _viz._
That there were found in the _Helvetian_ Camp, Tablets, _literis Graecis
conscriptas_; as if the same Person, who had learnt to make use of the
_Greek Forms_ of _Characters_, might not as easily have learnt the
_Greek Language_; or as if there might not be among the _Helvetii_,
_Priests_ or _Gentlemens Sons_, who might then have learnt _Greek_, as
our's now learn _Latin_; _Greek_ being at that Time a Language in Vogue
and Esteem. The very Neighbourhood of the School of _Massilia_ is
sufficient to confute that Opinion: And therefore _Caesar_, when he
speaks of his own Letter to _Cicero_, tells us, he sent that Letter
written in _Greek Characters_, lest (in case it were intercepted) his
Designs shou'd be discover'd by the Enemy. _Justinius_, lib. 20. says,
there was a Decree of the Senate made, that no _Carthaginian_, after
that Time, shou'd study the [Footnote: _Graecis literas._] _Greek Language_
or _Writing_, lest he shou'd be able to speak or write to the Enemy
without an Interpreter. _Tacitus_, in his Book _de moribus Germanorum_,
tells us, that several Tombs and Monuments were yet to be seen in the
Confines of _Germany_ and _Swisserland_ with _Greek_ Inscriptions on
them. _Livius_, lib. 9. says, The _Roman_ Boys formerly studied the
_Tuscan_ Language, as now they do the _Greek_. And in his 28th
Book,--"_Hanibal_ erected an Altar, and dedicated it with a large
Inscription of all his Atchievements, in the _Greek_ and _Punick_
Tongues. _Idem Lib._ 40. Both Altars and Inscriptions on them in the
_Greek_ and _Latin_ Tongues." Lastly, I cannot imagine, that _Caesar_
wou'd have expressed himself (if he had meant, as these wou'd have him)
_Graecis literis scribere_; but rather, _Graecarum literarum forma_, as we
see in _Tacitus_, Lib. 11. "_Novas literarum formas addidit._" He added
new Characters of Letters: Having found, that the _Greek_ Literature was
not begun and perfected at once. And again,--"_Et forme literis latinis
quae veterrimis Graecorum_, &c."

Now lest any body shou'd wonder, how the Word _Graecis_ crept into
_Caesar_'s Text, I will instance you t