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to enter on the career of conquest. Internal war prevented the Asiatics
for some time from pursuing their successes, and the Trocmes and
Tolistoboies continued still to pillage and oppress all the maritime
provinces. Nay, their power was actually increased by those wars, as
each of the contending parties purchased the mercenary services of large
bands of those brave, though turbulent warriors. But the end of the
Gaulish rule in Asia Minor was at hand. The small state of Pergamus,
under the able rule of Eumenes, emerged from its obscurity, and
inflicted a severe wound upon the Gauls by the defeat of Antiochus, king
of Syria, with whom a great number of them served as mercenaries. His
son Attalus, on his accession to the throne, immediately marched against
and defeated the Tolistoboies. Ionia, which had long groaned under their
oppression, seizing the opportunity, rose up against them; the
Tolistoboies, beaten in several engagements, were driven beyond Mount
Taurus; and the Trocmes, after a vain attempt to maintain themselves in
Troas, were forced to retreat and unite with their defeated countrymen.
Attacked now by the whole population of Asia Minor, the two hordes were
driven by degrees into Upper Phrygia, where the Tectosages had formerly
settled. Here the three hordes united, and here they founded the empire
of Galatia.

"Thus ended in Asia Minor the dominion of this people in their
character of nomad conquerors; another period of existence now
commenced for them. Abandoning their wandering life, they mixed
with the indigenous population, who were themselves a mixture of
Greek colonists and Asiatics. That blending together of three
races, unequal in power and in civilization, produced a mixed
nation, that of the Gallo-Greeks, whose civil, political, and
religious institutions, carry the triple stamp of Gaulish, Greek,
and Phrygian manners. The regular influence which the Gauls are
destined to act in Asia Minor, as an Asiatic power, will prove not
to be inferior to that of which they have been deprived; and we
shall see them defend, almost to the last, the liberty of the East
against the Roman arms."--(I. 203-204.)

We have not space to follow M. Thierry in his very interesting account
of the exploits of the Gaulish mercenaries in Greece--in particular of
those who served in the army of Pyrrhus; or who, acting in the pay of
Carthage, contributed so muc