Let inquiry be made of the sacred books, and let celebration take place of the ceremonies that ought to be fulfilled.

Far from refusing, I offer, with zeal, to satisfy all expenditure required, with captives of every nationality, victims of royal rank.

It is no shame to conquer with the aid of the gods; it is thus that our ancestors began and ended many a war." Human sacrifices, then, were not yet foreign to Pagan festivals, and probably the blood of more than one Frankish captive on that occasion flowed in the temple of all the gods.
It is the first time the name of _Franks_ appears in history; and it indicated no particular, single people, but a confederation of Germanic peoplets, settled or roving on the right bank of the Rhine, from the Mayn to the ocean.

The number and the names of the tribes united in this confederation are uncertain.

A chart of the Roman empire, prepared apparently at the end of the fourth century, in the reign of the Emperor Honorius (which chart, called _tabula Peutingeri,_ was found amongst the ancient MSS.