Gallic chief by Evariste Vital Luminais 1821-1896

"Again, in addition to their witlessness, there is also that custom, barbarous and exotic, which attends most of the northern tribes —I mean the fact that when they depart from the battle they hang the heads of their enemies from the necks of their horses, and, when they have brought them home, nail the spectacle to the entrances of their homes. At any rate, Poseidonius says that he himself saw this spectacle in many places, and that, although at first he loathed it, afterwards, through his familiarity with it, he could bear it calmly."

-Strabo's Geography, Book 4.5

Gallic chief by Evariste Vital Luminais 1821-1896.

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http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/4D*.html#4.5