text:  It being part of Goropius's system that the ancient Gauls were Dutch and the task of showing all the known words of the old Gaulish language to be significant in Dutch being consequently incumbent on him as a first step to his bolder speculations on the unexplained names of men and places he had among others given some ridiculous Dutch equivalents from the word _ambactus_ which as we are informed by Festus meant a slave or retainer in the old Gaulish tongue