of all Gallia was summon’d to meet at Bibracte; and there was a vast Concourse from all Parts to that Town.”—­And lib. 6. cap. 1—­“Caesar having summon’d the Council of Gaul to meet early in the Spring, as he had before determin’d:  Finding that the Senenes, Carnates and Treviri came not when all the rest came, he adjourned the Council to Paris.”—­And, lib 7. cap. 6. speaking of Vercingetorix,—­“He promis’d himself, that he shou’d be able by his Diligence to unite such Commonwealths to him as dissented from the rest of the Cities of Gaul, and to form a General Council of all Gallia; the Power of which, the whole World should not be able to withstand.”

Now concerning the Kings which ruled over certain Cities in Gallia the same Author makes mention of them in very many Places; Out of which this is particularly worthy our Observation:  That it was the Romans Custom to caress all those Reguli whom they found proper for their turns:  That is, such as were busy men, apt to embroil Affairs, and to sow Dissentions or Animosities between the several Commonwealths.  These they joined with in Friendship and Society, and by most honourable publick Decrees called them their Friends and Confederates:  And many of these Kings purchased, at a great Expence, this Verbal Honour from the Chief Men of Rome.  Now the Gauls called such, Reges, or rather Reguli, which were chosen, not for a certain Term, (as the Magistrates of the Free Cities were) but for their Lives; tho’ their Territories were never so small and inconsiderable:  And these, when Customs came to be changed by Time, were afterwards called by the Names of Dukes, Earls, and Marquisses.

Of the Commonwealths or Cities, some were much more potent than others; and upon these the lesser Commonwealths depended; these they put themselves under for Protection:  Such weak Cities Caesar sometimes calls the Tributaries and Subjects of the former; but, for the most part he says, they were in Confederacy with them. Livius writes, lib. 5. that when Tarquinius Priscus reigned in Rome, the Bituriges had the principal Authority among the Celtae, and gave a King to them.  When Caesar first enter’d Gaul, A.U.C. 695. he found it divided into Two Factions; the AEdui were at the Head of the one, the Arverni of the other, who many Years contended for the Superiority:  But that which greatly increas’d this Contention, was, Because the Bituriges, who were next Neighbours to the Arverni, were yet in file & imperio that is, Subjects and Allies to the AEdui.  On the other hand, the Sequani (tho’ Borderers on the AEdui) were under the Protection of the Arverni, lib.