text:  What men were those Bitunyes who in one day burned twenty of their towns! What men were those Camutes fugitives pursued by the sword by famine by winter and whom nothing could conquer! What variety of character is there amongst their chiefs--from the druid Divitiac the good and honest enthusiast of the Roman civilization to the savage Ambio-rix crafty vindictive implacable who admired and imitated nothing save the savageness of the German: from Dumno-rix that ambitious but fierce agitator who wished to make the conqueror of the Gauls an instrument but not a master to that Vercingeto-rix so pure so eloquent so true so magnanimous in misfortune and who wanted nothing to take a place amongst the greatest men but to have had another enemy above all another historian than Caesar! "The fourth period comprises the organization of Gaul into a Roman province and the slow and successive assimilation of Transalpine manners to the manners and institutions of Italy--a labour commenced by Augustus continued with success by Claudius completed in latter times