Done to a turn, for I superintended the cooking of it myself: It was a little Gallician of my own raising, may it please your Holiness, and the flesh was as white as an egg-shell, as indeed Donna Elvira told me herself.
After a year as consul that included getting the senate to pass laws largely because of intimidation by Pompey’s troops, Caesar landed the governorship of Gaul, at least the southern part of Gaul that Rome controlled.
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And the thing about Celtic gods, especially Celtic gods that date from the Roman era, is that we know so little about them, especially gods that come from places that the Romans conquered, like Gaul and Britain.
Many of their works, from the Pantheon (pictured above) and the Colosseum in Rome itself, to the Pont du Gard in southern Gaul and the equally impressive aqueduct of Segovia, in Spain, have withstood the ages.
Reminds you a little bit of, like, how the Romans in the Roman era started adopting Gallic and German fashions, like the tight pants, because, once again, seemed to be popular with the opposite sex, right?
In France, there was a group of Celtic people called the Gauls—you might know them from the comic series Asterix and Obelix, which is about Gauls fighting the Romans.
These curses were written on very thin sheets of lead, and the one whose inscription has been examined so far was written in the extinct Celtic language of Gaulish.
Brushing aside the Gallicism of his formal dip at her hand, Nicole pressed her face against his. They sat, or rather lay down together on the Antoninian bench.
Mrs. Mears was still in that stage of development when her countrywomen taste to the full the peril of being exposed to the gaze of the licentious Gaul.
It spreads through the culturally Gallic, The better way to phrase this is archaeologically the latent material culture sphere, because we don't see people, we see stuff.