ABSTRACT
These various designations were used concurrently. The ancients tried to give them special application, l and modern historians have attempted to assign them to different groups of Celtic tribes. 2 The tribes did, indeed, form groups of different kinds, but we must give up any attempt to divide them into Celts and Galatians. 3
We need not, therefore, make too much of Cresal"s definition at thc beginning of the Commentaries: Qui ipsorum lingua Celtw, nostm Galli appellantur-" Who are callcd Celts in their own language, and Gauls in ours." 7 At the very most, the passage might mean that Cresar considered that there were two different pronunciations of the same word.
