He took the title of King, which his predecessors had not hitherto borne.

He had his battles showily painted; and that he might triumph at the same time both in Europe and Asia, he sent one of the pictures to Athens, where it was still to be seen three centuries afterwards, hanging upon the wall of the citadel.

Forced to remain stationary, the Gallic hordes became a people,--the Galatians,--and the country they occupied was called Galatia.

They lived there some fifty years, aloof from the indigenous population of Greeks and Phrygians, whom they kept in an almost servile condition, preserving their warlike and barbarous habits, resuming sometimes their mercenary service, and becoming once more the bulwark or the terror of neighboring states.

But at the beginning of the second century before our era, the Romans had entered Asia, in pursuit of their great enemy, Hannibal.