[128] So great is the aversion of these Valachs to the killing of calves, that to redeem one taken by General Robutin, they offered him the choice of all their children.
[129] See pag. 92.
[130] Veste non fluitante, sed stricta, et singulos artus exprimente. Tacitus De moribus Germanorum, cap. xvii.
[131] So Martial, Spectac. Epigr. 3. Crinibus in nodum tortis venere Sicambri.
And Tacitus says the like of the Suevi, De morib. Germ. c. 38. Insigne gentis obliquare crinem, nodoque substringere.
[132] This trial of water, as well as that of fire, is authorized by the laws of Ladislaus, King of Hungary. Decret. S. Ladislai, Lib. ii. cap. 28.
[133] Est in Africa consuetudo incolarum, ut in agris, et in omnibus fere villis, sub terra specus condendi frumenti gratia clam habeant; atque id propter bella maxime, hostiumque subitum adventum praeparent: De bello Africano, cap. 65.
[134] Travels into divers parts of Europe, p. 145.
[135] Vid. Plin. Lib. xxviii. c. i. et Harduin. in loc.
[136] Lib. ii. cap. 96 et 114.