[72] That the Gallic Mercury resembled his Roman namesake in this respect is proved by the fact that one of the names of the Celtic Mercury was Visucius, which comes from the root VID = know (Robert and Cagnat, _Épigraphie de la Moselle_, p. 59). And Caesar noted as one of the characteristics of the Gallic Mercury that he was ‘omnium inventorem artium’ (_Bell. Gall._ vi. 17), though in later times he comes to be connected chiefly with commerce (cf. Caesar, _l.c._). See Daremberg-Saglio. [73] _Polit._ 1269 b 26, 1324 b 9. [74] _Var. Hist._ xii. 23. [75] Ἐμπειρίᾳ τῇ ἐς τὰ πολεμικὰ ἀπέδεον. They charge μετὰ οὐδενὸς λογισμοῦ αθάπερ τὰ θηρία, Pausan. x. 21. [76] Strabo, iv. 4. 4. [77] Ael. _Var. Hist._ xii. 23. [78] Athenaeus (quoting Posidonius), vi. 46 (ed. Kaibel). [79] v. 31. [80] _B. G._ vi. 13. 4. [81] _Hist. Litt._ i. 41, 42. [82] ‘Disciplina in Britannia reperta atque inde in Galliam translata esse existimatur, et nunc qui diligentius eam rem cognoscere volunt plerumque illo discendi causa proficiscuntur’, Caesar, _B. G._ vi. 13. 11. [83] Caesar, _B. G._ vi. 14. [84] Desjardins, _Géog. hist. de la Gaule_, ii. 214, note. [85] Caesar, _l.c._, and Diodor. v. 28. [86] Caesar, _l.c._, and Diodor. v. 31. [87] _De Divin_, i. 41 (90). [88] iii. 2 (19). [89] Solis nosse Deos et caeli numina vobis aut solis nescire datum: nemora alta remotis incolitis lucis.—_Phars._ i. 452 ff. [90] _Hist. Litt._ i. 41, 42. [91] ‘Huius Gallorum philosophiae, quam Valerius Maximus (ii. 6. 11) “avaram et faeneratoriam” nuncupat, tenebras dissipavit lux e Graecia allata in Phoceensium coloniam, Massiliam’. _De Gallorum Orat. Ingen._ 2. [92] _Cambr. Mediaev. Hist._ i. 185. [93] Tac. _Hist._ iv. 54. [94] Cf. Jung, _De Scholis Rom. in Gall. Comata._ 2. [95] ‘Druidarum religionem apud Gallos dirae immanitatis, et tantum civibus sub Augusto interdictam, penitus abolevit (_sc._ Claudius)’, Suet. _Claudius_, xxv. 5. [96] _De Caes._ iv. [97] _Nat. Hist._ xxx. 1. 4 ‘Namque Tiberii Caesaris principatus sustulit Druidas’. [98] _Nat. Hist._ xvi. 249; xxiv. 103; xxx. 13. [99] _Script. Hist. Aug._ xxvi. 44 ‘Sciscitantem utrum apud eius posteros imperium permaneret’. [100] Ibid. xxx. 14. [101] _Hist. de la Gaule mérid._, i. 541. [102] Lavisse, _Hist. de la France_, I. iii. 385. [103] Caesar, _B. G._ vi. 14. [104] iv. 1. 12. [105] Migne, _Patrologia Graeca_, vii. 444. [106] _Script. Hist. Aug., Alex. Sev._ 60. [107] Auson. _Prof._ iv. 7; x. 27. [108] Ausonius may be using ‘Belenus’ for ‘Apollo’ in a playful mood, as Mommsen thinks; but the name Belenus was exceedingly well known in Gaul, and indicates that Celtic civilization had left its mark. See Pauly-Wissowa, s.v. [109] _Technop._ xiv. [110] _Ep._ iii. 3. 2.