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learning to rely on writing and pay less attention to memory. They especially want to persuade people of this, that souls do not perish but cross from one to another after death, and by means of this belief especially they think that men are urged

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Card 7

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they hand it all down to their younger people.

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Card 8

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victims or vow that they will sacrifice them and they use Druids as assistants for those sacrifices. This is because they believe that unless a man’s life is exchanged for a man’s life, the divine power of the immortal gods cannot be appeased. They

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Card 9

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perish. They consider that the execution of those who have been caught in theft or in robbery or in some other offence is more pleasing to the immortal gods; but, when the supply of that kind (of victim) has run out, they even resort to the

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Card 10

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THE DRUIDS' LAST STAND Suetonius therefore prepared to attack the island of Anglesey, which was well supplied with inhabitants and a refuge for deserters. The infantry crossed in boats, the cavalry crossed by following them in shallow water or by

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Card 11

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brandishing torches. The Druids round about, uttering terrible prayers, with their hands raised to heaven, over-awed the soldiers by the strangeness of their appearance with the result that they exposed a motionless body to the wounds as if their

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Card 12

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their own fire. After this a garrison was imposed on the vanquished and their sacred groves, dedicated to their cruel rights were cut down; for the Druids thought it right to make offerings on the alters with the spilt blood of prisoners and to

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