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   XPost: alt.religion.druid   
   From: nospams@least.invalid   
      
   Custos Custodum wrote:   
   > Akins of that Ilk  wrote   
   >   
   >> it, indeed, a duty to cover their altars with the blood of captives   
   >> and to consult their duties through human entrails." - Tacitus,   
   >> Annals   
   >>   
   >> So, Auld Bob, you take your opinion that "nothing can be known about   
   >> the Druids" from the eminent British Museum which advocates that   
   >> anything written about them by their contemporaries in ancient times   
   >> should be tossed aside as unreliable?   
   >>   
   >   
   > Where Tacitus is concerned, then most certainly. Just look what he   
   > wrote about 'Calgacus'. Every bit as fanciful as your own scribblings.   
      
   Where it comes to Roman accounts about the Celts in general, we   
   need to look no further than US-American accounts about Iraq in 2003.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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