<head>Ostiagon Tries to Become King of All the Gauls</head>Ostiagon the <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Gaul&groupId=598&placeId=1108">Gaul</a>, king of the Gauls of Asia, endeavoured<pb n="319" />to transfer to himself the sovereignty of all the Gauls; and he had many qualifications for such a post, both natural and acquired.<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note54">The policy of Ostiagon in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Galatia&groupId=596&placeId=385">Galatia</a>.</note>For he was open-handed and generous, a man of popular manners and ready tact; and, what was most important in the eyes of the Gauls, he was a man of courage and skill in war. . . .
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