CAESAR BELLATOR

Book IV Aphorism 13

The Suebi: A Martial People

“When asked how one should remain a free man, he said: ‘By despising death.’”
— Agis son of Archidamus

            A year after having successfully pacified Gaul in three parallel campaigns, trouble was once again stirred up on the border of the Roman Republic. It was in that year that two Germanic tribes had raided into Gaul to…