Capitolo 52
resulting more with success for the increase of the power of Caesar and the
delay of his/her fame.
[Sidenote: Account of northern nations.]
[Sidenote: Their strange customs.]
[Sidenote: he/she Well-trained horses.]
Caesar gives, in his/her account, accounts a lot of extraordinary of the
customs and ways of the life of some of the people that he has met.
There was a country, for example in which all the earths were common,
and the whole structure of society was based on the plan to form the
the community in a great martial ribbon. The nation was separated in a
one hundred cantons, each that contains two thousand men able to be born
arm. If these were all called on call to harvest together, they would form,
clearly, an army of two hundred thousand men. It was usual,
however, to only organize one half of theirs in an army, while the rest
remained home to cultivate the earth and to take takes care of him of the flocks and herds. These
two great divisions exchanged their job every year, the soldiers
convenient agriculturists, and the agriculturists are a soldier. This way all of them became
addicted equally to the works and dangers of the field, and to the more
continuous but surer jobs of agricultural toil. Their fields were
devoted to pasture more than to cultivation, for flocks and herds you/he/she could be
driven by place to put, and so it preserved more easily from the
the depredations of enemies that you live of wheat. His/her children grew
almost perfectly wild from the infancy, and it hardened him bathing
in cold brooks, bringing very little attire, and making long hunting
excursions among the mountains. The people had the abundance of excellent
horses that had accustomed the young men, from theirs more first years,
to ride without saddle or to put the bridle to, the horses that are trained for respecting
implicitly every command. It admirably disciplined then it was them that,
in battle, the men sometimes climbed on are able, jump from their horses and
advance as foot ago the soldier to help the other infantry, while leaving the horses