Note 93 — Chapter II · STATE OF GAUL IN THE TIME OF CÆSAR.
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Milk and the flesh of wild or domestic animals, especially swine’s flesh fresh or salted, formed the principal food of the Gauls. (Strabo, IV., p. 163.)—Beer and mead were the principal drink of the Gauls. (Posidonius quoted by Athenæus, IV., p. 151, Fragmenta Historicum Græc., III. 260.)—This statement is made also by Diodorus Siculus (V. 26), who informs us that this beer was made with barley.