. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. ?ARVOS-TrUCASANVi;. l>>-- THE OOD TAURfS. FKAGMENTH OF AN KOfNO rNDKU NOTRE DAME IN PARIS (MUSEUM OF ). i\w Rliiiic, had already been carried, fifteen years iHfore the liogin-nini, of the Cliristian era, into the re<fions between the Elbe and ADJIINISTKATION OF AUGUSTUS IN THE rilOVINCES. 173 Oder.^ That it coiUd go so far as this proves tliat it must havebeen very rapidly accepted in the old provinces.^ It does iKjt appear that the people were opposed to thesechanges, made as t
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. ?ARVOS-TrUCASANVi;. l>>-- THE OOD TAURfS. FKAGMENTH OF AN KOfNO rNDKU NOTRE DAME IN PARIS (MUSEUM OF ). i\w Rliiiic, had already been carried, fifteen years iHfore the liogin-nini, of the Cliristian era, into the re<fions between the Elbe and ADJIINISTKATION OF AUGUSTUS IN THE rilOVINCES. 173 Oder.^ That it coiUd go so far as this proves tliat it must havebeen very rapidly accepted in the old provinces.^ It does iKjt appear that the people were opposed to thesechanges, made as they were without violence, and authorized bycustoms as well as by beliefs. Only the Druidic priests consideredthemselves persecuted,— and so indeed they were, but in a peculiarway. Augustus divided Druidism into two parts : he accepted itsgods, and he rejected its priests. Against the latter he promulgatedno decree ; but in giving the Gauls a like municipal organization tothat of Italy, he took away from the Druids, without appearing toconcern himself with them, their judicial power, which passed overto the
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