Quotes: But a general survey inclines me to believe that the Gauls established themselves in an island so near to them. Their religious belief may be traced in the strongly-marked British superstition. The language differs but little; there is the same boldness in challenging danger, and, when it is near, the same timidity in shrinking from it. The Britons, however, exhibit more spirit, as being a people whom a long peace has not yet enervated. Indeed we have understood that even the Gauls were once renowned in war; but, after a while, sloth following on ease crept over them, and they lost their courage along with their freedom. This too has happened to the long-conquered tribes of Britain; the rest are still what the Gauls once were. Agr Chapter 11: The BritonsThe Gauls run down to the bank to meet them with various whoopings and songs, according to their custom, shaking their shields above their heads, and brandishing their weapons in their right hands. Hor Book XXI Chapter 28: The crossing of the Rhone (cont.) Or as the temper of the Gauls is impetuous and ready to undertake wars, so their mind is weak, and by no means resolute in enduring calamities. Dbg Book III Chapter 19: Sabinus against Viridovix. The battle. Laboring cattle, in which the Gauls take the greatest pleasure, and which they procure at a great price, Dbg Book IV Chapter 2: War with the Germans. About the Suevi(Cont.) Nothing was to be intrusted to them Dbg Book IV Chapter 5: War with the Germans. Caesar does not trust the Gauls. For it is the custom of that people to compel travelers to stop, even against their inclination, and inquire what they may have heard, or may know, respecting any matter; and in towns the common people throng around merchants and force them to state from what countries they come, and what affairs they know of there. They often engage in resolutions concerning the most important matters, induced by these reports and stories alone; of which they must necessarily instantly repent, since they yield to mere unauthorized reports; and since most people give to their questions answers framed agreeably to their wishes. Dbg Book IV Chapter 5: War with the Germans. Caesar does not trust the Gauls. In Gaul there are factions not only in all the states, and in all the cantons and their divisions, but almost in each family, and of these factions those are the leaders who are considered according to their judgment to possess the greatest influence, upon whose will and determination the management of all affairs and measures depends Dbg Book VI Chapter 11: The Gauls: their society. The nation of all the Gauls is extremely devoted to superstitious rites; and on that account they who are troubled with unusually severe diseases, and they who are engaged in battles and dangers, either sacrifice men as victims, or vow that they will sacrifice them, and employ the Druids as the performers of those sacrifices; because they think that unless the life of a man be offered for the life of a man, the mind of the immortal gods can not be rendered propitious, and they have sacrifices of that kind ordained for national purposes. Dbg Book VI Chapter 16: The Gauls: their rites. Others have figures of vast size, the limbs of which formed of osiers they fill with living men, which being set on fire, the men perish enveloped in the flames. They consider that the oblation of such as have been taken in theft, or in robbery, or any other offense, is more acceptable to the immortal gods; but when a supply of that class is wanting, they have recourse to the oblation of even the innocent. Dbg Book VI Chapter 16: The Gauls: their rites. They worship as their divinity, Mercury in particular, and have many images of him, and regard him as the inventor of all arts, they consider him the guide of their journeys and marches, and believe him to have great influence over the acquisition of gain and mercantile transactions Dbg Book VI Chapter 17: The Gauls: their Gods. When they have conquered, they sacrifice whatever captured animals may have survived the conflict, and collect the other things into one place. In many states you may see piles of these things heaped up in their consecrated spots; nor does it often happen that any one, disregarding the sanctity of the case, dares either to secrete in his house things captured, or take away those deposited; and the most severe punishment, with torture, has been established for such a deed. Dbg Book VI Chapter 17: The Gauls: their Gods. All the Gauls assert that they are descended from the god Dis, and say that this tradition has been handed down by the Druids. For that reason they compute the divisions of every season, not by the number of days, but of nights; they keep birthdays and the beginnings of months and years in such an order that the day follows the night. Dbg Book VI Chapter 18: The Gauls: their descend. They regard it as indecorous for a son of boyish age to stand in public in the presence of his father. Dbg Book VI Chapter 18: The Gauls: their descend. Whatever sums of money the husbands have received in the name of dowry from their wives, making an estimate of it, they add the same amount out of their own estates. An account is kept of all this money conjointly, and the profits are laid by: whichever of them shall have survived [the other], to that one the portion of both reverts together with the profits of the previous time. Dbg Book VI Chapter 19: The Gauls: their marriages. Husbands have power of life and death over their wives as well as over their children: Dbg Book VI Chapter 19: The Gauls: their marriages. Their funerals, considering the state of civilization among the Gauls, are magnificent and costly; and they cast into the fire all things, including living creatures, which they suppose to have been dear to them when alive; and, a little before this period, slaves and dependents, who were ascertained to have been beloved by them, were, after the regular funeral rites were completed, burnt together with them. Dbg Book VI Chapter 19: The Gauls: their marriages. And there was formerly a time when the Gauls excelled the Germans in prowess, and waged war on them offensively, and, on account of the great number of their people and the insufficiency of their land, sent colonies over the Rhine. Dbg Book VI Chapter 24: Previous wars between Gauls and Germans. Their extreme eagerness for the water and their impatience of the heat weakened the constitutions of the Germans and Gauls, always liable to disease. His Book II Chapter 93: Revolt of Vespasian. Vitellius' army The Gauls they urged to fight for freedom, the Batavi for glory, the Germans for plunder. His Book IV Chapter 78: The Batavian Uprise. Cerialis victorious As a nation they cannot control their passions Hor Book V Chapter 37: Invasion of the Gauls. The attack. Those who are coming here in loose and disorderly fashion are a race to whom nature has given bodies and minds distinguished by bulk rather than by resolution and endurance. I Hor Book V Chapter 44: Invasion of the Gauls. Camillus speaks to the people of Ardea When they are gorged with food and the wine they drink so greedily, they throw themselves down like wild beasts, on the approach of night, in all directions by the streams, without entrenching themselves, or setting any outposts or pickets on guard. And now after their success they are more careless than ever. Hor Book V Chapter 44: Invasion of the Gauls. Camillus speaks to the people of Ardea As a nation they are by no means inattentive to the claims of religion. Hor Book V Chapter 46: Invasion of the Gauls. Camillus appointed dictator. Other links: Gaul Before the Romans [M] Celts of Gaul, Iberia, and Galatia Naval warfare Celtic warfare The Geography of Roman Gaul Meaning of letters between [ and ]: A: Roman remains. C: Coins. L: Links. M: Map. P: Peutinger
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Term referred to by name of the following persons: If the number following a name is identical to the number following another name, then the names refer to the same person. Brennus(677) Civismarus(13132) Moenicaptus(13133) Gainas(3156)
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