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[3] They mutilated even the dead according to the practice of their people, some carrying bunches of hands about their bodies and others heads which they had spitted upon their javelins and spears.1 Such women as they found to have taken refuge together with their children in the temples they called upon their comrades not to kill, and to these alone did they give assurance of their lives.

1 Cp. Book 5.29 for the custom of the Gauls of preserving the heads of warriors they had conquered.

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