All are clean in their persons; nor among them is ever seen any man or woman, as elsewhere, squalid in ragged garments.

At all ages they are apt for military service.

The old man goes forth to the fight with equal strength of breast, with limbs as hardened by cold and assiduous labor, and as contemptuous of all dangers, as the young.

Not one of them, as in Italy is often the case, was ever known to cut off his thumbs to avoid the service of Mars." The polity of each race differed widely from that of the other.

The government of both may be said to have been republican, but the Gallic tribes were aristocracies, in which the influence of clanship was a predominant feature; while the German system, although nominally regal, was in reality democratic.