Druids
Social role / institution
Gallic War 6.13 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… But of these two orders, one is that of the Druids, the other that of the knights. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 6.13
Caesar
… But of these two orders, one is that of the Druids, the other that of the knights. …
Gallic War 6.14
Caesar
The Druids do not go to war, nor pay tribute together with the rest; they have an exemption from military service and a dispensation in all matters. …
Gallic War 6.16
Caesar
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. …
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Gallic War 6.13 · Gallic War 6.14 · Gallic War 6.16 · Gallic War 6.18 · Gallic War 6.21