[288] Diodorus Siculus, V. xxxix.
[289] See Titus Livius, XXXII. to XLII.
[290] See Strabo, V. i. § 10, 11.
[291] Strabo, V. i. § 12.
[292] Gold was originally very abundant in Gaul; but the mines whence it was extracted, and the rivers which carried it, must have been soon exhausted, for the quality of the Gaulish gold coins becomes more and more abased as the date of their fabrication approaches that of the Roman conquest.
[293] Strabo, V. i. § 7.—Titus Livius, X. 2.
[294] Pliny, Natural History, III. xvi. 119.—Martial, Epigr., IV. xxv.—Antonine Itinerary, 126.
[295] Pliny, Natural History, XXXVII. iii. § 11.
[296] Small vessels, quick sailers, and rapid in their movements, excellent for piracy; also called liburnæ, from the name of the people who employed them.
[297] Polybius, II. 5.