The druids are usually exempt from war and do not pay tributes together with the rest;

they have exemption from military service and freedom from all thing.

Stirred up by such rewards many of them meet even of their own accord from training and they are sent by parents and relations.

There they are said to learn by heart a great number of verses in this way several remain in training for twenty years.

and they do not think it right to entrust these verses to writing,

although they use the Greek alphabet for nearly the rest of their matters.

They seem to me to have instituted these things for two reasons,

because they do not want their training to be brought to the public,

and so those who learn do not trust less in memory while relying on letters.

they especially want to persuade this,

that their souls do not die,

but they go from one to another after death,

and by means of this they think that men are especially incited to courage with fears of death ignored.

They discuss things besides about the stars and their movements,

about the size of the earth and the lands,

about the nature of things,

about the force of the immortal gods and their powers,

and they hand this down to their young people.

	Created by emily Wallace over 9 years ago

IGCSE latin Note on the druids , created by emily Wallace on 03/05/2017.