From: matt6219
Message: 16492
Date: 2002-10-22
> --- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>nonnulli
> wrote:
> > The relevant passage is De Bello Gallico 6.14:
> >
> > Magnum ibi numerum versuum ediscere dicuntur. Itaque annos
> vicenos in disciplina permanent. Neque fas esse existimant eaRavi,
> litteris mandare, cum in reliquis fere rebus, publicis privatisque
> rationibus Graecis litteris utantur.
> >
> > ([The druids] are said there to learn by heart a great number of
> verses; accordingly some remain in the course of training twenty
> years. Nor do they regard it lawful to commit these to writing,
> though in almost all other matters, in their public and private
> transactions, they use Greek characters.)
> >
> >
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> ""Nor do they regard it lawful to commit these to writing, ""
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> If possible, could someone shed some light on this practice ?
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> Ravi