On Phoenician Letters

which for that reason is called by the name of Avitus original: "Auito", an antediluvian and most ancient name of the whole world, and is primordial. The authors are Cato, Pliny, Solinus, Bochus, Berosus.

The first true religion & eternal faith, that is, what has always been in this world, is, and will be, was to be believed from the beginning in Gaul.

5. The primary observation of true virtue, which is placed in true religion, was so great among the Gauls, the pupils of the doctrine of the Druids, that they alone (to the sound of the impiety of the Greeks and Romans, and even to the point of laughter) believed and affirmed to such an extent that THERE IS A GOD, AND THAT HE IS A REWARDER TO THOSE WHO SEEK HIM (although, as elsewhere, the plague of idolatry arose there gradually from the poisons of the Greeks), so that they believed that souls would be immortal so holily that they would not be unwilling to give money on loan in this life, wishing and striving to have it returned in the future. Caesar & Valerius Maximus.

The office of the supreme magistrate

6. Since it is just, as the body is ruled by the commands of the mind, so also the power of the sacred magistrate, caring for the souls in the body of the Republic, as it was customary for the body of the whole Republic to be moved about, and especially for the unjust attempts of princes to be repressed, this was practiced among the Gauls alone, so that even in the midst