which opened under his feet; and with him were two virgins, who issued from the temples of Artemis and Athena.  We saw them with our eyes.  We heard the twang of their bows, and the clash of their armor.”  Hearing these cries and the roar of the tempest, the Greeks dash on—­the Gauls are panic-stricken, and rush headlong down the bill.  The Greeks push on in pursuit.  Rumors of fresh apparitions are spread; three heroes, Hyperochus, Laodocus, and Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, have issued from their tombs hard by the temple, and are thrusting at the Gauls with their lances.  The rout was speedy and general; the barbarians rushed to the cover of their camp; but the camp was attacked next morning by the Greeks from the town and by re-enforcements from the country places.  Brennus and the picked warriors about him made a gallant resistance, but defeat was a foregone conclusion.  Brennus was wounded, and his comrades bore him off the field.  The barbarian army passed the whole day in flight.  During the ensuing night a new access of terror seized them they again took to flight, and four days after the passage of Thermopylae some scattered bands, forming scarcely a third of those who had marched on Delphi, rejoined the division which had remained behind, some leagues from the town, in the plains watered by the Cephissus.  Brennus summoned his comrades “Kill all the wounded and me,” said he; “burn your cars; make Cichor king; and away at full speed.”  Then he called for wine, drank himself drunk, and stabbed himself.  Cichor did cut the throats of the wounded, and traversed, flying and fighting, Thessaly and Macedonia; and on returning whence they had set out, the Gauls dispersed, some to settle at the foot of a neighboring mountain under the command of a chieftain named Bathanat or Baedhannatt, i.e., son of the wild boar; others to march back towards their own country; the greatest part to resume the same life of incursion and adventure.  But they changed the scene of operations.  Greece, Macedonia, and Thrace were exhausted by pillage, and made a league to resist.  About 278 B.C. the Gauls crossed the Hellespont and passed into Asia Minor.  There, at one time in the pay of the kings of Bithynia, Pergamos, Cappadocia, and Syria, or of the free commercial cities which were struggling against the kings, at another carrying on wars on their own account, they wandered for more than thirty years, divided into three great hordes, which parcelled out the territories among themselves, overran and plundered them during the fine weather, intrenched themselves during winter in their camp of cars, or in some fortified place, sold their services to the highest bidder, changed masters according to interest or inclination, and by their bravery became the terror of these effeminate populations and the arbiters of these petty states.