The elected chieftains had rather authority to persuade than power to command.
The Gauls were an agricultural people.

They were not without many arts of life.

They had extensive flocks and herds; and they even exported salted provisions as far as Rome.

The truculent German, Ger-mane, Heer-mann, War-man, considered carnage the only useful occupation, and despised agriculture as enervating and ignoble.

It was base, in his opinion, to gain by sweat what was more easily acquired by blood.