This statement, when read in its context, probably refers to the prohibition of human sacrifices.

The historian Suetonius, in his account of the Emperor Claudius, also states that Augustus had prohibited 'the religion of the Druids' (which, he says, 'was one of fearful savagery') to Roman citizens, but that Claudius had entirely abolished it.

What is here also meant, in view of the description given of Druidism, is doubtless the abolishing of its human sacrifices.

In later Latin writers there are several references to Druidesses, but these were probably only sorceresses.

In Irish the name _drui_ (genitive _druad_) meant a magician, and the word _derwydd_ in mediaeval Welsh was especially used in reference to the vaticinations which were then popular in Wales.
When we analyse the testimony of ancient writers concerning the Druids, we see in the first place that to different minds the name connoted different things.