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E was in earnest. Otherwise it would soon look here as though the
plagues of locusts, flood, and fire had visited us at once. Red-haired
men are not the only sons of Typhon!" And Hermon thought that he had
indeed never seen any human beings equally fierce, bold to the verge of
reckless madness, as these Gallic warriors. The tempest which swept them
forward, and the water through which they waded, only seemed to increase
their enjoyment, for sheer delight rang in their exulting shouts and
yells. Oh, yes! To march amid this uproar of the elements was a pleasure
to the healthy men. It afforded them the rarest, most enlivening
delight. For a long time nothing had so strongly reminded them of the
roaring of the wind and the rushing of the rain in their northern home.
It seemed a delicious relief, after the heat and dryness of the south,
which they had endured with groans. When they perceived the eyes fixed
upon them they swung their weapons, arched their breasts with conscious
vanity, distorted their faces into terrible threatening grimaces, or
raised bugle horns to their lips, drew from them shrill, ear-piercing
notes and gloated, with childish delight, in the terror of the gaping
crowd, on whom the restraint of authority sternly forbade them to show
their mettle. Lust of rapine and greed for booty glittered in many a
fiery, longing look, but their leaders kept them in check with the
sword. So they rushed on without stopping, like a thunderstorm pregnant
with destruction which the wind drives over a terrified village. Hermon
also had to take the road they followed, and, after giving the Gauls a
long start, he set out again. But though he succeeded in passing the
marshy region without injury, there had been delay after delay; here the
horses had left the floo
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