Note 34 — Chapter VII · THE INVASION OF THE GAULS AND ITS SEQUEL

[As a forewarning here of the comparatively recent Gallic re-invasions of Italy, one may quote what J. J. Ampèred says in his L’histoire romaine à Rome: “To terminate cheerfully the story of the geese of Manlius, I will recall a caricature representing a French soldier plucking a goose on the Capitoline Hill; beneath were the words, ‘Vengeance of a Gaul.’”]