Gauls in sight of Rome by Evariste Vital Luminais 1821-1896

"The Gauls were of the Celtic stock, and their numbers were such, as it is said, that they abandoned their own country, which was not able to sustain them all, and set out in quest of another."

-Plutarch, Life of Camillus: Section 15

Gauls in sight of Rome by Evariste Vital Luminais 1821-1896. Height: 73 cm (28.7 in); Width: 100 cm (39.3 in). Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy.

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http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Camillus*.html