3.] [Footnote 38: Apuleius and Augustin will answer for Africa; Strabo for Spain and Gaul; Tacitus, in the life of Agricola, for Britain; and Velleius Paterculus, for Pannonia.

To them we may add the language of the Inscriptions.

* Note: Mr.Hallam contests this assertion as regards Britain.

"Nor did the Romans ever establish their language--I know not whether they wished to do so--in this island, as we perceive by that stubborn British tongue which has survived two conquests." In his note, Mr.Hallam examines the passage from Tacitus (Agric.

xxi.) to which Gibbon refers.