Readings in English History from Original Sources, Book 2

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: people of Kent are by far the most civilized of all; their territory is entirely marttime, and in customs there is but little difference between them and the Gauls. The inhabitants of the interior,...(展開全部) Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: people of Kent are by far the most civilized of all; their territory is entirely marttime, and in customs there is but little difference between them and the Gauls. The inhabitants of the interior, generally speaking, do not sow corn, but live on milk and flesh, and wear skins for clothing. All the Britons dye themselves with woad, which gives a blue colour, and thus they render their appearance more dreadful in battle. They wear their hair long, but shave every portion of the body except the head and upper lip. J 3. The Druids CAESAR: Gallic War There are two classes of men in Gaul who are held in honour; of these the Nobles are one, the Druids are the other. These Druids have charge of all religious services, deal with all sacrifices both public and private, and are the authorities on all matters of conscience. To them come many youths for study and training, by whom they are held in great honour. For they settle almost all disputes, public and private; and has any crime been committed or murder done, or is there a dispute concerning a bequest or landed property, it is they who are arbiters, and the judges of rewards or penalties.If any private individual or any state does not abide by their judgment they forbid their attendance at the sacrifices i.e. excommunicate them, which amongst them is considered an extreme penalty. Whoever is thus forbidden Druids, from a bas-relief found

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