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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 63 (search)
The territory of the
Treveri they entered with all the security naturally felt among allies. But
at Divodurum, a town of the Mediomatrici, though
they had been received with the most courteous hospitality, a sudden panic
mastered them. In a moment they took up arms to massacre an innocent people,
not for the sake of plunder, or fired by the lust of spoil, but in a wild
frenzy arising from causes so vague that it was very difficult to apply a
remedy. Soothed at length by the entreaties of their general, they refrained
from utterly destroying the town; yet as many as four thousand human beings
were slaughtered. Such an alarm was spread through Gaul, that as the army advanced, whole states, headed by
their magistrates and with prayers on their lips, came forth to meet it,
while the women and children lay prostrate along the roads, and all else
that might appease an enemy's fury was offered, though war there was none,
to secure the boon of peace.