Note 97 — Chapter II · STATE OF GAUL IN THE TIME OF CÆSAR.

Cæsar often speaks of the fickleness of temper of this people, which, during a long period, gave great trouble to the Roman people. “Omnes fere Gallos novis rebus studere, et ad bellum mobiliter celeriterque excitari.” (De Bello Gallico, III 10.)—Lampridius, in his Life of Alexander Severus, 59, expresses himself thus: “But the Gauls, those tempers hard to deal with, and who regret all they have ceased to possess, often furnished grave cares to the emperors.”—“Gallorum subita et repentina consilia.” (De Bello Gallico, III. 8.)