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... GAULS Renown of the Gauls in war 34 Their first passage into Italy 34 Destruction of Rome by the Senones 36 Camillus . Combat between T. Manlius Torquatus and a Gaul Battle near the Colline Gate Defeat of the Boii by C. Sulpicius 38 39 ...
... GAULS Renown of the Gauls in war 34 Their first passage into Italy 34 Destruction of Rome by the Senones 36 Camillus . Combat between T. Manlius Torquatus and a Gaul Battle near the Colline Gate Defeat of the Boii by C. Sulpicius 38 39 ...
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... Gauls from Germans 89 89 Narrower meaning of ' Celt ' Origin of the Gauls unknown Three divisions of Gaul 89 90 90 Gallia Togata , Bracata , Comata The Aquitanian language not Celtic . Language of Gaul Size of the Gauls 91 91 91 93 ...
... Gauls from Germans 89 89 Narrower meaning of ' Celt ' Origin of the Gauls unknown Three divisions of Gaul 89 90 90 Gallia Togata , Bracata , Comata The Aquitanian language not Celtic . Language of Gaul Size of the Gauls 91 91 91 93 ...
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... Gauls in mining Mode of building Bridges . Use of Greek letters Number of tribes Kings in Gaul Factions Classes Druids Religion Belief in immortality . Metempsychosis Care of the dead Ritual Augury · The Celtic Pantheon . The Celtic ...
... Gauls in mining Mode of building Bridges . Use of Greek letters Number of tribes Kings in Gaul Factions Classes Druids Religion Belief in immortality . Metempsychosis Care of the dead Ritual Augury · The Celtic Pantheon . The Celtic ...
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... Gauls , has unfortunately perished . We possess only an abstract made by a careless epitomizer , together with extracts from Suidas and other sources . The account of Gaul given by so late a writer as Ammianus Marcellinus ( about 400 ...
... Gauls , has unfortunately perished . We possess only an abstract made by a careless epitomizer , together with extracts from Suidas and other sources . The account of Gaul given by so late a writer as Ammianus Marcellinus ( about 400 ...
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... Gaul , that his treatise on grammar was composed ( Suet . J. C. 56,7 Plut . Caes . 17 ) . His health was not naturally ... Gauls , as Plutarch epigrammatically puts it , to conquer his countrymen . 1 Suet . J. C. 45 ' tempore extremo ...
... Gaul , that his treatise on grammar was composed ( Suet . J. C. 56,7 Plut . Caes . 17 ) . His health was not naturally ... Gauls , as Plutarch epigrammatically puts it , to conquer his countrymen . 1 Suet . J. C. 45 ' tempore extremo ...
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Page 9 - Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt.
Page 222 - Ejus rei multas afferunt causas : ne assidua consuetudine capti studium belli gerendi agricultura commutent ; ne latos fines parare studeant, potentioresque humiliores possessionibus expellant ; ne accuratius ad frigora atque aestus vitandos aedificent ; ne qua oriatur pecuniae cupiditas, qua ex re factiones dissensionesque nascuntur ; ut animi aequitate plebem contineant, cum suas quisque opes cum potentissimis aequari videat.
Page 217 - In primis hoc volunt persuadere, non interire animas, sed ab aliis post mortem transire ad alios, atque hoc maxime ad virtutem excitari putant metu mortis neglecto. Multa praeterea de sideribus atque eorum motu, de mundi ac terrarum magnitudine, de rerum natura, de deorum immortalium vi ac potestate disputant et iuventuti tradunt.
Page 221 - Deorum numero eos solos ducunt, quos cernunt et quorum aperte opibus iuvantur, Solem et Vulcanum et Lunam, reliquos ne fama quidem acceperunt.
Page 219 - Galli se omnes ab Dite patre prognatos praedicant, idque ab Druidibus proditum dicunt. Ob eam causam spatia omnis temporis non numero dierum sed noctium finiunt ; dies natales et mensium et annorum initia sic observant, ut noctem dies subsequatur.
Page 74 - ... perculerunt. Sublatis deinde supra capita scutis continuatisque ita inter se, ut non modo ad caecos ictus sed ne ad inserendum quidem ex propinquo telum loci quicquam esset, testudine facta 7 subibant.
Page 172 - Omnes vero se Britanni vitro inficiunt, quod caeruleum efficit colorem, atque hoc horridiores sunt in pugna aspectu; capilloque sunt promisso atque omni parte corporis rasa praeter caput et labrum superius.