or a few days before setting
out on their northward route. All the bridges of the Sperchius had
been broken down, and the left bank of the river was occupied by
the Thessalians, who had collected _en masse_; nevertheless, the
Gaulish army forced a passage. It was in the midst of a population
all armed, and thirsting for vengeance, that they traversed, from
one extremity to the other, Thessaly and Macedonia, exposed to
perils, to sufferings, to privations, daily increasing, combating
without intermission during the day, and at night having no other
shelter than a cold and watery sky. They gained at last the
northern frontier of Macedonia. There the distribution of the body
took place: afterwards the Kimry-Gauls divided into many bands;
some returned to their country, others sought in different
directions new food for their turbulent activity."--(I. 180.)

A band of Tectosages joined to the Tolistoboies, and a horde of Gauls,
united, and traversing Thrace with fire and sword, passed over into Asia
Minor. They found it distracted by the quarrels of Alexander's
successors. Summoned in an evil hour by Nicomedes to aid him and the
Greek states of Asia Minor in their struggle against the Seleucidae, they
soon established him on the throne of Bithynia. But they now turned
their victorious arms against the nations of that unhappy country. Their
armies, increased by reinforcements drawn from Thrace, had divided
themselves into three hordes: the Tectosages, the Tolistoboies, and the
Trocmes. To avoid dispute, they distributed the whole of Asia Minor into
three parts: of these the Trocmes possessed the Hellespont and Troas;
the Tolistoboies, AEolida and Ionia; the Tectosages, the coast of the
Mediterranean from the west of Mount Taurus. They now overran and
subdued all Asia Minor; every country, every town, was obliged to pay
them tribute; or soon the fertile land was reduced to an arid desert,
watered only by the blood of its inhabitants, and the costly city,
stormed by the fierce warriors of the north, became a heap of smoking
ruins. At last the Tectosages came in contact with Antiochus, king of
Syria, and were totally defeated at the battle of the Taurus; the Syrian
king, following up his victory, compelled them to resign their
conquests, and to establish themselves on the banks of the Halys, near
the town of Ancyra, in Upper Phrygia, where they dwelt, too weak agai