[55: The second Berne gloss on Lucan, i. 445, which rightly makes Teutates Mars, and seems also otherwise credible, says of him: _Hesum Mercurium colunt, si quidem a mercatoribus colitur_.] [56: Josephus, _Bell. Jud._ ii. 16, 4. There king Agrippa asks his Jews whether they imagined themselves to be richer than the Gauls, braver than the Germans, more sagacious than the Hellenes. With this all other testimonies accord. Nero hears of the revolt not unwillingly _occasione nata spoliandarum iure belli opulentissimarum provinciarum_ (Suetonius, _Nero_, 40; Plut. _Galb._ 5); the booty taken from the insurgent army of Vindex is immense (Tac. _Hist._ i. 51). Tacitus (_Hist._ iii. 46) calls the Haedui _pecunia dites et voluptatibus opulentos_. The general of Vespasian is not wrong in saying to the revolted Gauls in Tac. _Hist._ iv. 74: _Regna bellaque per Gallias semper fuere, donec in nostrum ius concederetis; nos quamquam totiens lacessiti iure victoriae id solum vobis addidimus quo pacem tueremur, nam neque quies gentium sine armis neque arma sine stipendiis neque stipendia sine tributis haberi queunt_. The taxes doubtless pressed heavily, but not so heavily as the old state of feud and club-law.] [57: This epigram on "barley-wine" is preserved (_Anthol. Pal._ ix. 368): Τίς πόθεν εἶς Διόνυσε; μὰ γὰρ τὸν ἀληθέα Βάκχον, οὐ σ' ἐπιγιγνώσκω· τὸν Διὸς οἶδα μόνον. κεῖνος νέκταρ ὄδωδε· σὺ δὲ τράγου· ἦ ῥά σε Κελτοὶ τῇ πενίῃ βοτρύων τεῦξαν ἀπ' ἀσταχύων. τῷ σε χρὴ καλέειν Δημήτριον, οὐ Διόνυσον, πυρογένη μᾶλλον καὶ βρόμον, οὐ Βρόμιον. On an earthen ring found in Paris (Mowat, _Bull. épig. de la Gaule_, ii. 110; iii. 133), which is hollow and adapted for the filling of cups, the drinker says to the host: _copo, conditu(m)_ [_cnoditu_ is a misspelling] _abes_; _est reple(n)da_--"Host, thou hast more in the cellar; the flask is empty;" and to the barmaid: _ospita, reple lagona(m) cervesa_--"Girl, fill the flask with beer."] [58: Suetonius, _Dom._ 7. When it was specified as a reason, that the higher prices of corn were occasioned by the conversion of agricultural land into vineyards, that was of course a pretext which calculated on the want of intelligence in the public.] [59: When Hehn still appeals (_Kulturpflanzen_, p. 76) for the vine-culture of the Arverni and the Sequani, beyond the Narbonensis, to Pliny, _H. N._ xiv. 1, 18, he follows discarded interpolations of the text. It is possible that the sterner imperial government in the three Gauls kept back the cultivation of the vine more than the lax senatorial rule in the Narbonensis.] [60: One of the professorial poems of Ausonius is dedicated to four Greek grammarians:-- _Sedulum cunctis studium docendi; Fructus exilis tenuisque sermo; Sed, quia nostro docuere in aevo, Commemorandi._ This mention is the more meritorious, seeing that he had learned nothing suitable from them:--