[111] “Optimus excusso Lucus Remusque lacerto.” (Lucan, Pharsalia, I. 424.)
[112] “Pugnaces pictis cohibebant Lingonas armis.” (Lucan, Pharsalia, I. 398.)
[113] Strabo, IV., p. 163, edit. Didot.
[114] Pausanias (Phocid., XIX. 10, 11), speaking of the ancient Gauls, who had penetrated to Delphi, says that “each horseman had with him two esquires, who were also mounted on horses; when the cavalry was engaged in combat, these esquires were poised behind the main body of the army, either to replace the horsemen who were killed, or to give their horse to their companion if he lost his own, or to take his place in case he were wounded, while the other esquire carried him out of the battle.”
[115] De Bello Civili, I. 39.
[116] De Bello Gallico, III. 20 and VII. 22.
[117] De Bello Gallico, III. 21 and VII. 22.
[118] De Bello Gallico, VIII. 14.
[119] Diodorus Siculus, V. 29.—See the bas-reliefs from Entremonts in the Museum of Aix, representing Gaulish horsemen, whose horses have human heads suspended to the poitrel.
[120] Cæsar, De Bello Gallico, IV. 5; VII. 3.