11.
Since we have come to the place, it does not appear to be foreign to our subject
to lay before the reader an account of the manners of Gaul and Germany , and wherein
these nations differ from each other. In Gaul there are factions not only
in all the states, and in all the cantons and their divisions, but almost in
each family, and of these factions those are the leaders who are considered
according to their judgment to possess the greatest influence, upon whose will
and determination the management of all affairs and measures depends. And that
seems to have been instituted in ancient times with this view, that no one of
the common people should be in want of support against one more powerful; for,
none [of those leaders] suffers his party to be oppressed and defrauded, and if
he do otherwise, he has no influence among his party. This same policy exists
throughout the whole of Gaul; for all the states are
divided into two factions.
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