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The Kelt or Gael. 19
of 150,000 foot and 61,000 horse, and through
the same road as the Persians had formerly
taken, he advanced to Thermopylae. He was
then stopped as the Persians were. The pass
over the mountains was sold as in Persian times,
and the Greeks took to their ships and fled. He
turned and took the same road as the Persians
had taken to plunder Delphi, and, like them, his
army fled panic-stricken, defeated in the same
manner by thunders and earthquakes, and more
especially by huge masses of stone rolled down
from the mountains.
North of the Danube Bohemia and Moravia Bohemia and
were first Keltic, then German, and are now
Slav.
The presence of Kelts in Thrace and Asia Asia Minor.
Minor is accounted for by stating that the
remnants of the army of Brennus partly settled
in Thrace, and partly migrated to Asia Minor.
The only evidence on this point is that one of
the tribes of the Asiatic Gallati was named Tecto-
sages, and a people dwelling at the foot of the
Pyrenees passed by the same name. This is no
proof, as there were Brigantes in Vindelicia, in
Spain, in Britain, and in Ireland, and I am not
sure there were not some in Gaul. Ptolemy, in
his map of Asia Minor, gives a large space to
Galatia, and Strabo describes its constitution,
which is certainly Keltic. For many centuries
the Gallati were engaged in every battle that
took place in Asia Minor, till their conquest by