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THE GAULS OUT OF GAUL.
About three centuries B.C.numerous hordes of Gauls crossed the Alps and penetrated to the centre of Etruria, which is nowadays Tuscany.

The Etruscans, being then at war with Rome, proposed to take them, armed and equipped as they had come, into their own pay.

"If you want our hands," answered the Gauls, "against your enemies, the Romans, here they are at your service--but on one condition: give us lands." [Illustration: A Tribe of Gauls on an Expedition----27] A century afterwards other Gallic hordes, descending in like manner upon Italy, had commenced building houses and tilling fields along the Adriatic, on the territory where afterwards was Aquileia.

The Roman Senate decreed that their settlement should be opposed, and that they should be summoned to give up their implements and even their arms.