Validiores olim Gallorum res fuisse summus auctorum divus Iulius tradit; eoque credibile est etiam Gallos in Germaniam transgressos: quantulum enim amnis obstabat quo minus, ut quaeque gens evaluerai, occuparet permutaretque sedes promiscas  adhuc et nulla regnorum potentia divisas! igitur inter Hercyniam silvam Rhenumque et Moenum amnes Helvetii, ulteriora Boii, Gallica utraque gens, tenuere.
That the fortunes of the Gaul were once higher than the German is recorded on the supreme authority of Julius of happy memory, and therefore it is easy to believe that the Gauls even crossed over into Germany: small chance there was of the river preventing each tribe, as it became powerful, from seizing and taking in exchange new land, still held in common, and not yet divided into powerful kingdoms: accordingly the country between the Hercynian forest and the rivers Rhine and Moenus was occupied by the Helvetii, and the country beyond by the Boii, both Gallic races:
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